'Holland House, Kensington', c1876. Holland House, originally known as Cope Castle, an early Jacobean country house built in 1605 by diplomat Sir Walter Cope to designs by Inigo Jones. A gathering-place for Whigs in the 19th century, damaged during the Blitz in 1940, the ruins are grade I listed. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]