Chapel House, (now No. 15) Montpelier Row, Twickenham
Chapel House charmed Alfred Tennyson when he first viewed it in 1850, and he was dismayed to learn that it had already been let. He recorded in a letter:
The most lovely house with a beautiful view in every room at top … A large staircase with great statues and carved and all rooms splendidly papered … and all for 50 guineas! A lady has taken it. I cursed my stars!
After further talks with the landlord, the house became available to them after all.
Text extract from Lang & Shannon (ed.), The
Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.
As quoted by Thorn.
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