Aerial view of Holland House (left) and the North Foreland Golf Course (right), Kingsgate, Kent,
Holland House, Kingsgate, in Kent, is a Georgian country house built between 1762 and 1768 as his retirement home by the politician Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (1705-1774), of Holland House in Kensington. It is a Grade II listed building. The house is situated in a dip between two clifftops. It overlooks the sea at Kingsgate Bay, to the beach of which it had access through a stone arched gate originally named Bartholomew Gate (or Bart'lem Gate). The gate was later renamed King's Gate, as it was reputedly where King Charles II landed in 1683, during a storm, while on his way to Dover. On the change of its name by the King's command, the following Latin distich was composed by a Mr. Toddy of Josse, then proprietor of the land on which the gate stood; it was inscribed on a stone tablet on the gate's land-side. I once by St. Bartholomew was claim'd, But now, so bids the King, am Kingsgate nam'd. King Charles II. and James, Duke of York, landed here, June 30, 1683. Holland House was built by Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (1705-1774), of Holland House in Kensington, to the designs of the amateur architect Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough (1736–1807) (created Baron Newborough in 1766). It was said to have been inspired by Cicero's villa at Formiae on the coast of Baiae. Lord Holland commissioned the architect Robert Adam to design the interiors, but the work was not completed. A single 1767 design by Adam, for the ceiling of Lady Holland's bedroom, survives in the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum. Lord Holland added several follies around the house, including a stable block known as Kingsgate Castle, and another building now known as the Captain Digby Public House. The estate was used by Lord Holland and his family for the shooting of partridges and the playing of 1767 Lord Holland purchased the nearby estate of Quex, in the parish of Birchington, from Catherine, Countess of Guildford, one of the three daughters and coheirs of Sir Robert Furnese,
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Location: Kingsgate Bay, Broadstairs, Thanet, Kent
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