Londonderry House

Londonderry House was an aristocratic townhouse situated on Park Lane in the Mayfair district of London, England.

[1] The residence was purchased in 1819 by the 1st Baron Stewart, an Irish aristocrat, to serve as a home whilst the family stayed in London during the annual social season.

Some half a century later, in 1882–83, the 5th Marquess of Londonderry commissioned James Brooks to build, in red brick with terracotta facings, a handsome new stable yard, coach houses, and accommodation for the stable staff of Londonderry House, arranged around an internal courtyard (all of which were accessible via wide double doors opening on to Brick Street).

After the war, the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, a prominent Ulster Unionist politician, and his wife, Edith Helen Chaplin, continued to use the house and entertained extensively.

Rose Keppel in 1961, hosted by their mother, Lady Mairi Bury (youngest daughter of the 7th Marquess); the wedding reception of the Hon.

The large statue at the foot of the staircase of Londonderry House, Canova's Theseus and the Minotaur, was bought by the Victoria & Albert Museum.

George Stubbs's masterpiece, the life-size painting of the racehorse Hambletonian after his famous win at Newmarket, was one of the items which belonged to Lady Mairi Bury and it was taken down from the library in Londonderry House and rehung on the staircase of Lady Mairi's own home at Mount Stewart, in County Down, where it is still to be seen today.