Boston Manor Park is the publicly owned green space, including a lake, which adjoins the house.

Bordwad has not been identified with a group of people or physical feature and so it is assumed the first part of this word means Bord's.

The King did this to make raising tax easier and it had the benefit of deterring alienation of part, a process then called subinfeudation, keeping the land together until the dissolution of the monasteries.

The King may have favoured this particular Convent in Bishopsgate because it was full of the unmarried daughters of members of the Guild of Goldsmiths, and so by making them self-supporting by giving them the means to charge their new tenants rents and to sell the produce grown on their newly acquired demesne, he could justify taxing their fathers more heavily and collect the tax in the form of silver coinage, which was more convenient.

In 1539, Henry VIII's national reforms saw the convent dissolved and the manor (including its holdings) returned to the Crown.

When the Duke was beheaded, his lands were forfeited under the Counter-Reformation of Mary I to The Crown until Elizabeth I granted it to her favourite Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester who immediately sold it to Sir Thomas Gresham, an internationally wealthy merchant and financier who had also bought Osterley as his summer residence.

As Gresham died without issue, the property went to his stepson Sir William Reade who lived in Osterley so had to obtain a Patent of Possession in 1610 from James I so that he could inherit.

In 1923 he sold the final part of the estate: the house and 20 acres (8.1 ha) purchased by the Brentford Urban District Council and opened as a public park in 1924.

To the north of the house the Clitherow family added extensions that contained the kitchen services and quarters for the domestic staff.

The house and the surrounding 20 acres (8.1 ha) was purchased by the Brentford Urban District Council, and was opened as a public park in 1924.

[example needed] There came a time when the south west corner was propped up by scaffolding intended to be a temporary measure but which became a feature for several years.

English Heritage judged that urgent work was needed in order to consolidate the foundations to prevent further deterioration and possible collapse.

However, during the ownership of James Clitherow (IV), the central ground floor window on the east side was converted into a doorway and a porch was added.

It is fashioned from pale grit stone which has weathered to an almost light golden colour, with Elizabethan detail, and topped with a low ornamental balustrade.

Once back in the hallway and walking through the screen, there is to the left-hand side a door to the library, which is about the same size as the dining room.

Unfortunately the room now remains locked and cannot be seen by visitors due to the dangerous condition of the wall on that side of the house.

The angle of ascent (or rake) of the stairs is more gentle than in modern buildings, with both a lower ‘rise’ to the next tread and deeper ‘run’ to the next step.

A 19th-century addition to the top of the newel posts are small plaster or composition castings of lions which are sitting on their haunches, with their bodies erect and both forepaws raised from the ground (i.e., holding ‘sejant erect attitude’), Each animal hold a shield bearing the arms of a different Clitherow member.

With the commanding view that the house provides to the south and south west, one can almost imagine a little over a hundred years before that, when the then King Charles I could have been pacing from window to window with his loyal supporter Sir Edward Spencer, watching Prince Rupert's troops engaging with the Parliamentarians during the Battle of Brentford.

This symbol pre-dates Christianity: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Hebrews 6:19 (KJV).

From here and though the doorway to the east side is the state drawing room; so called because this is where the ladies would withdraw after dinner, leaving the menfolk to smoke and sample the cellar.

Boston Manor House is famous for this room: it is large, with a high and magnificent Jacobean ceiling, with some elements designed by the 17th-century Dutch artist Marcus Gheeraerts, and engraved by Galle.

Car boot sales are held on the first Saturday of every month from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Boston Manor House is surrounded by other historic neighbours.

The area's local London Underground station is Boston Manor, served by Piccadilly line trains.

Boston Manor is featured in the song Girl VII on the album Foxbase Alpha by UK pop band Saint Etienne.