East Sheen Lodge

East Sheen Lodge was an 18th century house on the west side of Sheen Lane, with grounds extending to Richmond Park. It was built around 1720. The picture on the right shows East Sheen Lodge in 1870 from a lithograph by Thomas Way. Its residents included Sir John Barber, Lord Mayor of London in 1732, and Rear Admiral William Fitzroy, whose large household is recorded in the 1851 Census. James Stuart-Wortley bought the property in 1858, renamed it Wortley Lodge, and soon realised the potential of the land in East Sheen for development. Later residents included the 1st Duke of Fife who married Princess Louise in 1889, and it was by a pond in the garden that her brother, the future George V, proposed to Queen Mary. It was also the home of Rear Admiral Horace Hood who died at the Battle of Jutland.

In 1908 the property was up for sale, described in an extensive brochure. East Sheen Lodge was the last of the grand houses in East Sheen to be demolished. It survived until 1965, though it had been converted into apartments in 1925.