Seaford House

[1] A magnolia stucco building with four main storeys, it is most famed for its interiors (the first floor, or piano nobile, being decorated in Beaux-Arts style).

[2] The town house, with its railings and gate piers, is listed Grade II* for architectural merit.

Lord Howard de Walden, also Baron Seaford,[5] acquired the lease of the house in 1902 renaming it Seaford House and installed friezes, panelling, and a staircase of green onyx specially imported from South America.

[6] Requisitioned by the Wartime Government in 1940, and for a while was used as offices by the Air Ministry, Seaford House was badly damaged by Luftwaffe aerial bombing in October 1940, and rebuilt thereafter (but without the porte-cochère).

Seaford House stood in as the exterior of the home of Maggie Gyllenhaal's character Nessa Stein in the BBC and SundanceTV television miniseries The Honourable Woman in 2014.