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Northumberland House

For other buildings called Suffolk House, see Suffolk House (disambiguation).

Northumberland House by Canaletto, 1752. It shows the Strand front of Northumberland House. Note the Percy Lion atop the central facade. The Statue of Charles I at right survives in situ.
An extract from John Rocque's Map of London, 1746. The two projecting garden wings had not yet been added.
Position of Northumberland House and garden on a modern map, based on John Rocque's 1746 map.

Northumberland House (also known as Suffolk House when owned by the Earls of Suffolk) was a large Jacobean townhouse in London, so-called because it was, for most of its history, the London residence of the Percy family, who were the Earls and later Dukes of Northumberland and one of England's richest and most prominent aristocratic dynasties for many centuries. It stood at the far western end of the Strand from around 1605 until it was demolished in 1874. In its later years it overlooked Trafalgar Square.

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