Provender House

Provender House
The front of the house in 2009
Coordinates	51°18′41″N 0°49′49″E / 51.31126°N 0.83020°E / 51.31126; 0.83020Coordinates: 51°18′41″N 0°49′49″E / 51.31126°N 0.83020°E / 51.31126; 0.83020
Built	1342
Built for	Lucas de Vienne
Owner	Princess Olga Romanoff
Website	provenderhouse.co.uk
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated	24 January 1967

Provender House, is a historic home in Norton near Faversham in Kent, England. It is privately owned but open for weddings and tours throughout the year.

The home is situated on Provender Lane in Norton, which is located in the Swale district of Kent. It has been listed as Grade II by English Heritage since 24 January 1967.

The house was built in 1342 for Lucas de Vienne, the Chief Archer to Edward, the Black Prince. Additional extensions were built from the 15th to the 19th centuries. At one stage, it was owned by the Knatchbull-Hugueson family.

The widowed Constance Borgström née Paterson (from Finland) started to live there as renter in the 1890s. She was the widow of the wealthy Finnish businessman, consul Eemeli Borgström, one of the younger sons of Councillor H. Borgström and his wife Karoliina née Kjemmer, and member of that important Finnish banking family who had been in contact with English business circles since Councillor Borgström was trained as a youth in a British merchant company in the very early 1800s.

One of Constance's daughters, Sylvia McDougall née Borgström (a Finnish-born heiress who was married to a British man, Colonel Herbert McDougall), purchased the house and its land in 1912. Since then, the house has been inherited from mother to daughter.

Sylvia McDougall's eldest daughter and heiress was Nadine McDougall (1908–2000), who became the second wife of Prince Andrew of Russia (1897–1981), the eldest son of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (eldest sister of the last Tsar). The house became Prince Andrew's main residence in exile from 1950.

The current owner is their daughter, Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff. She has three surviving children. During the ownership of Princess Olga, the house was refurbished in the 2000s by architect Ptolemy Dean.