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Boston Manor Road, BRENTFORD, TW8 9JX

The Jacobean mansion dates back to 1623. The house has three state rooms including the State Drawing Room with its plaster ceiling and mantelpiece. One of the earliest examples of English Renaissance style, the exterior of the house is particularly fine.

Boston Manor House is a Jacobean manor that was originally built for Lady Mary Reade and completed in 1623. Lady Mary Reade was a young widow who subsequently married Sir Edward Spencer of Althorp, Northamptonshire, who was an ancestor of the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Sir Edward and Lady Mary were still the owners of Boston Manor in 1642, when the Civil War Battle of Brentford took place nearby. The house was later purchased for £5,136 by James Clitherow, a City merchant, and then extended in 1670. It remained the home of seven generations of the Clitherow family during the next two-and-a-half centuries, until it became the property of the local Council in 1924. The house was damaged during the Second World War and needed extensive restoration before it was reopened in 1963. Its ownership has now passed down to the London Borough of Hounslow, and it is open to the public on weekend afternoons between April and October. It is a Grade I Listed Building.

The manor house seen from the south-west. Apparently built in the 1620's, but much patched-up, which undermines any sense of antiquity. In the rear elevation the rhythm of the windows is totally unrelated to the gables, and that - along with a lack of symmetry around the entrance - seems, to me, to undermine any sense of grandeur. Photo taken on a rather overcast July evening.

This view is of the rear of the property viewed across the ornamental pond. The House still exists today but this photograph was taken in 1936. It is now confirmed that the pond and trees and shrubs are still there, albeit with taller trees of course.

Boston Manor House, is a little-known treasure in West London. This fine Jacobean manor house was built in 1623. The house is set in parkland off the eponymous Boston Manor Road in Brentford. Quite a find in a square dominated by the elevated section of the M4.

It could be a pond or a river, it was so stagnant and full of rubbish it was really hard to tell.

The Hub building is a product of the £5.34m regeneration of Boston Manor Park. It houses the Potting Shed cafe, which launched in July 2023. It complements the cafe in nearby Boston Manor House.