Kingston House

After Elizabeth's death in 1788, it passed to the Duke's nephew, Captain Charles Medows (1737-1816) R.N., who under the terms of his uncle's will took the name Pierrepont and was later created the 1st Earl of Manvers. He leased the property to a series of tenants including Sir George Warren (1735-1801), M.P.; John Dalrymple (1749-1821), 6th Earl of Stair; and, Edward Loveden Loveden (1749-1821), F.R.S., of Buscot Park, Oxfordshire.

In 1813, the house and 21-acre estate was sold for £20,000 to the Irish peer William Hare (1751-1837), 1st Earl of Listowel. He died there in 1837 and was succeeded by his grandson William Hare (1801-1856), 2nd Earl of Listowel. The 2nd Earl rarely stayed there and was persuaded by the savvy son of a carpenter who'd made a name for himself developing Mayfair, John Elger (1802-1888), to develop large tracts of the estate, creating Prince's Gate and Ennismore Gardens. During this time the house was leased to several tenants including the Duke of Wellington's brother, Richard Wellesley (1760-1842), 1st Marquess Wellesley, who died there in 1842; and the banker Baron Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879).

Kingston House remained in the ownership of the Hare family until the death of the 4th Earl in 1931, when the estate passed to his younger son, John Hare (1911-1982), M.P., 1st Viscount Blakenham. In 1935, he sold the house and what remained of the land for redevelopment and following the death of his grandmother, the Countess of Listowel, in 1936, the house was demolished the following year and replaced by two large art-deco blocks of private apartments: Kingston House North and Kingston House South.