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| Eltham Palace |
| Eltham Palace is a strange amalgam of 15th Century royal palace and 20th Century modernist house. Recorded in the Domesday Book, the house was at various times home to Edward II, Richard II, Edward IV and Henry VIII. The only remnants of the palace today is the great hall (built in 1479) which has the third largest hammerbeam roof in England. |
| From the reign of Charles I, the palace was abandoned (the great hall became a barn!) and probably would not have survived if not for the intervention of the Courtauld textile family in 1931. They created a private house complete with London's best example of interior Art Deco design. They also restored the surrounding moat and sunken garden. |
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Eltham and Mottingham. |
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Eltham Palace is now owned by English Heritage. |
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