[2] The Chancery office entrance is located to the rear, at 14 Three Kings Yard, a private cul-de-sac off Davies Street.

In February 1742 Lord Effingham sold the lease for £5,500 to Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham.

[2] Learning in 1865 that the Grosvenor estate required the house to be rebuilt, the tenant Earl Fitzwilliam vacated the property, which was taken over by the architect, Sir Charles James Freake.

Unable to find a new occupant for the renovated house, Freake passed the lease back to the Fitzwilliam family in 1872.

[6] Lord Gerald Wellesley was commissioned to convert the interior into suitable accommodation for the embassy,[7] with marble fittings to suit the Italian art and furnishings.