[3] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with nine bays: the central section features a porch with four Tuscan columns.

[3] The house's 7 acres (2.8 ha) of grounds have now been completely built over, and the building itself has been converted to commercial office space.

[1] Mortlake Terrace (1827) is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.[1][6] The Museum of London holds a wood engraving of people at The Limes, as it was then called, watching the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.

Jerrold describes how "the towing paths presented to the view of the more fortunate people upon the private river-side terraces, a mixed population ..."[7] The house was, at the time, the residence of a Mr Marsh Nelson.

[8] The house's former residents include the Franks, a family of Jewish merchant bankers;[9] Lady Byron, widow of the poet; the educational philanthropist Quintin Hogg;[3] and Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley,[10] who lived there from 1874 to 1875[11] and later became Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.