Brook House (Park Lane)
Coordinates: 51°30′40.8″N 0°9′25.3″W / 51.511333°N 0.157028°W
Brook House located at 113 Park Lane in Mayfair, London, was built by Thomas Henry Wyatt from 1867 to 1869. It was the home of Edward VII's private banker Ernest Cassel and his granddaughter. Upon his death in 1921, the house was left to Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley, daughter of Wilfrid Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple and Amalia Mary Maud Cassel. She sold the property in 1931, it was built into flats in 1933 and one of the first tenants was Harry Selfridge, who occupied a flat there in 1936.
In 1854, Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth purchased the lot on the corner which was numbered 29. A decade later, he acquired the adjacent lot numbered 28 and sought permission to build a mansion overlooking the park, based upon designs from Thomas Henry Wyatt. Construction began in 1867 and completed in 1869 on the large red brick structure with Portland stone dressings. The house had French façades, and a number of bays and balconies. The interior from the entrance on Upper Brook Street opened to a mahogany staircase that rose two stories, lined in variegated marble. The library was furnished in cherry paneling and the dining room was decorated with carving from the recently demolished Draper's Hall.
After the first Lord Tweedmouth died, the 2nd Baron added a porch to the house where lot 27 had been. A reversal in his financial situation, caused him to sell the house in 1904. Ernest Cassel not only bought Brook House, but he also bought the Baron's country estate at Guisachan. Between 1905 and 1907, Cassel carried out renovations to the property designed by architect Arnold Mitchell and built by the firm of Holland and Hannen. The interiors were done by Charles Allom, decorator for the Royal Family. The house had 24 bedrooms, 11 reception rooms, a sixty-foot-long ballroom, a grand dining room which had seating for 100 guests, and 800 tons of Tuscan marble in the main hall and staircase alone.
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