Ashburnham House

Ashburnham House

Ashburnham House is a building on Little Dean's Yard in Westminster, London, United Kingdom, and is a part of Westminster School's facilities.

The current Ashburnham House was built by Inigo Jones or his pupil John Webb around the time of the Restoration, as a London seat for the family that became the Earls of Ashburnham. It incorporates remains of the mediæval Prior's House, and its garden is the site of some of the earliest sittings of the House of Commons.

During the Second World War, the library was used as a communications station for the Royal Air Force, and the ground floor as an American officers' club. In 1969, it was used as one of the locations for the film "The Magic Christian".

The house was the original location of Westminster's first day-house, also known as Ashburnham House, for a few years from when it was founded in the late 1940s until it moved in 1951 to 5 Dean's Yard.

As you go through the ground floor you reach Ashburnham Garden, where remanants of Edward the Confessor's abbey can be seen.


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