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Winfield House
Winfield House is a mansion set in of grounds in Regent's Park, the second largest private garden in central London, after that of Buckingham Palace. Since 1955, it has been the official residence of the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. It is Grade II listed as an "exceptional ambassador's residence and as a notable Neo-Georgian town house containing numerous features of note."〔
==Property before Winfield House==
The first house on the site was Hertford Villa, the largest of the eight originally built in the park as part of John Nash's development scheme. The actual house was designed by Decimus Burton for the notorious Regency rake, Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford, who used it for orgies.〔Stourton. Page 153.〕 Later the Georgian villa was known as St Dunstan's, because of the distinctive clock that hung in front of it, purchased by the art collecting Marquess when material from St Dunstan-in-the-West was auctioned off in 1829–30 prior to the church's demolition.〔Godwin, George; John Britton (1829). The Churches of London. London.〕
Later occupants included newspaper proprietor Lord Rothermere and the American financier Otto Hermann Kahn. Kahn lent it during World War I to a new charity for blinded servicemen, which took the name of St Dunstan's.〔''My Story of St Dunstan's'' (1961) by Lord Fraser of Lonsdale〕
The villa was damaged by fire in 1936〔Stourton. Page 153.〕 and was subsequently purchased by the American heiress Barbara Hutton, who demolished it.
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