Woodlands House
90 Mycenae Road, Blackheath, Royal Borough of Greenwich
Completed in 1776, for John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823) and his first wife, Anna Muilman (1733-1783). He was the Chairman of Lloyd's of London whose art collection formed the nucleus of the British National Gallery that was first housed in their London townhouse at 100 Pall Mall. Their country home sat on an estate of 54-acres and following the design of the architect George Gibson it took two years to build. It may have been the same house which inspired Monklands in Montreal....
Woodlands remained a private home to the Angerstein, Bristow, and Yarrow families until 1906. During World War I, the shipbuilding magnate Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow (who still owned the house but no longer lived there) allowed it to be used for housing Belgian refugees. In 1923, it was purchased by the Little Sisters of the Assumption for use as a convent and from 1967 it was a library and art gallery maintained by the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Since 2006, it has been home to the Greenwich Steiner School.
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Contributed by Mark Meredith on 04/04/2023 and last updated on 04/04/2023.
Image from a watercolour by George Heriot, 1816, courtesy of the Notman Archives at the McCord Museum in Montreal.
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