Monday 17 December 2007

SPENCER HOUSE

SPENCER HOUSE

27 St James's Place, London SW1. Telephone: (0207) 409 0526. Tube: Green Park. Open Sun 10.45-17.30 (last tour 16.45). Tours begin every 15 mins.
A private palace built between 1756-66 by John Vardy for the first Earl Spencer (ancestor of Princess Diana). The nine state rooms were the first in the neo-classical style to be designed in England.