Cromwell House, Highgate
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Cromwell House, Highgate
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 12 Jun 2010
An impressive early C17 house with 7 bays set above Highgate Hill http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=201359 . There have been additions since, like the C18 doorcase and the C19 cupola. The house was built for Richard Sprignall who, like the illustrious John Gilpin, was a trainband (militia) captain, which would presumably have put him on Cromwell's side in the civil war, but the name of the house arrived only in 1833, when it became a school and later a convalescent home for sick children. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22520 gives more historical and architectural detail.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.569693
Longitude
-0.143261