It later served as a wartime hospital, then a museum and library, and is now run by Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust.

He was then Dean of Durham and tutor to Prince Henry, the son of James I, and older brother of the future Charles I. Greenwich Palace, where their mother lived much of the time, was nearby.

[9][10] Anne, Lady Halkett was married in 1656 at Charlton House, the service was conducted in her brother-in-law Sir Henry Newton's closet by Mr Robert Gale, the chaplain of Christian Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire.

Under their grandson Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson a wing was added to the house by Norman Shaw, in 1877.

[12] During World War I, Charlton House was the divisional headquarters of the Red Cross for Greenwich and Woolwich.

[4] The Chapel Wing was bombed during the Blitz and was subsequently rebuilt albeit with non-matching bricks such as were available in the immediate post-war period.

[14] The walled gardens and some of the perennial borders were redesigned and re-planted by the landscape designer Andrew Fisher Tomlin in 2003–2004 for the then London, now Royal Borough of Greenwich with perennial meadow planting to the main walled kitchen garden retaining three ancient Prunus app.