Aubrey House (London)

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Aubrey House is one of the largest private houses in Kensington. It also has one of the largest private gardens in Kensington.
Aubrey House is a large 18th century detached house in the Campden Hill area of Holland Park in West London, W8. Known for a long time as Notting Hill House, it had been named Aubrey House by the 1860s, after Aubrey de Vere, who held the manor of Kensington at the time of the Domesday Book. The core of the house is thought to date to 1698, it was remodelled by Sir Edward Lloyd between 1745 and 1754.
The house became a centre for radical thought and a haunt for political exiles in the 1860s under Clementia and Peter Alfred Taylor.

Among its past residents,included:
Lady Mary Coke (1727-1811).English Essayist and Noblewoman.
Peter Alfred Taylor (1819-1891) ,British Radical Politician and his equally Radical womens rights wife Clementia (1810-1908),who hosted many radicals,feminists,activists and literary figures here..
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872).Italian Revolutionary & Politician,'the Beating Heart of Italy',was a regular guest of the Taylors.
His Italian compatriot and fellow Unification revolutionary,Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882),stayed here in 1864.

Prince Andrew held his stag-do here..

It is the current residence of Sigrid Rausing (b1962),Swedish philanthropist,businesswoman and member of the notable Rausing family..