on a grand scale impractical. The following examples, most of which are now demolished, are comparable to the Parisian hôtel particulier: Secular houses The Albany Apsley House, Duke of Wellington; Baynard's Castle, City of London, Earls of Pembroke 1551-1666; Berkeley House, residence of Baron Berkeley of Stratton (a junior branch of Baron Berkeley of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire), seated at Bruton Abbey in Somerset, was on the site of Bruton Street, Stratton Street and Berkeley Square in Mayfair, and later became Devonshire House. Berkeley's Inn, Baynard's Castle, City of London, town house of Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley (1353-1417), which he gave in his will to Robert Knollis, a Citizen of London. Bedford House Bridgewater House, Westminster Buckingham House (now Buckingham Palace) Burlington House (now home of the Royal Academy) Cambridge House Chandos House, 2 Queen Anne Street, Marylebone; 3rd Duke of Chandos Chesterfield House (demolished 1937, now eponymous Mayfair block of flats) Chudleigh House, Knightsbridge, Westminster, later called Kingston House Clarence House, the residence of the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and now the residence of Charles, Prince of Wales Clarendon House Crewe House, Curzon Street, Mayfair, currently the Saudi Arabian embassy Devonshire House (formerly on Piccadilly, opposite present Ritz Hotel. Formerly Berkeley House) Dorchester House Dudley House, London Essex House Forbes House Grosvenor House (replaced by eponymous hotel); see also Peterborough House Harrington House formerly the London residence of the Earl of Harrington Hertford House, Cannon Row, home of Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (1539-1621), son of the first builder of Somerset House. The present Hertford House in Manchester Square, home of the Wallace Collection, was built by one of his very distant cousins. Hungerford House, residence of Baron Hungerford until 1669. It later became the site of Hungerford Market and then Charing Cross railway station Kingston House, Knightsbridge, Westminster, formerly called Chudleigh House Knyvet House, residence of Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet (d.1622), now 10 Downing Street Lancaster House Lansdowne House Leicester House, Westminster Londonderry House (formerly on Piccadilly) Marlborough House, once a royal residence, now the Commonwealth Secretariat Montagu House Norfolk House Northumberland House (demolished) Pembroke House, Whitehall Peterborough House, Millbank, Westminster. Richmond House, built c.1660 by Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond (of Cobham Hall in Kent) on the site of the bowling green of the Palace of Whitehall. Somerset House, Strand Somerset House, Park Lane (built 1769–70; demolished 1915) Spencer House,