Old Battersea House

Founded by James Kay-Shuttleworth, it was the first institution dedicated to training teachers specifically for disadvantaged children.

In 1931 it passed into the possession of novelist Wilhelmina Stirling, who renamed it Old Battersea House.

[3] Under her tenure the house served to house a collection of art by her sister, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan, and Evelyn's husband, the potter designer William De Morgan.

The building was listed on 28 June 1954[1] and became derelict after Stirling's death in 1965.

It was acquired by Malcolm Forbes in 1970[3] and housed some of his family's valuable art collection until 2011.