February 14, 2009

Thanks to Lady Soames’s Speaking for Themselves, we are able to provide a comprehensive list of residences, including country houses and temporary quarters.

Official residences such as Admiralty House and Downing Street are marked in bold and are listed only for the periods the Churchill’s actually resided there. Asterisked (*) London addresses carry the blue historical plaque. (It is not clear whether the Churchill’s fully vacated Hyde Park Gate during the 1951-55 Premiership.)

For inveterate explorers, we also list some temporary quarters, such as the Ivor and Freddie Guest residences, used between homes; and at least a few holiday rentals: Pear Tree Cottage (1914) and Hoe Farm (1915); and “Hosey Rigge,” rented during the overhaul of Chartwell (1923-24).

Primary Residences

• Charles Street (1874-1879)
• The Little Lodge, Dublin (1877-1880)
• 29 St. James’s Place (1880-1883)
• 35A Great Cumberland Place (1883-1900)
• 105 Mount Street (1900-1905, first bachelor flat)
• 12 Bolton Street (1905-March 1909, first house of his own)
• 33 Eccleston Square (Spring 1909-April 1913)*
• Admiralty House (April 1913-May 1915)
• 41 Cromwell Road (June 1915-Autumn 1916, with Jack Churchill family)
• 33 Eccleston Square (Autumn 1916-Spring 1917)*
• 16 Lower Berkeley Street (September-November 1918)
• 1 Dean Trench Street (rented from early 1919 to early 1920)
• 2 Sussex Square (March 1920-January 1924; destroyed in the Blitz)*
• 11 Downing Street (January 1924-April 1929)
• 11 Morpeth Mansions (long-term lease, 1932-September 1939)*
• Admiralty House (September 1939-July 1940)
• 10 Downing Street & Number Ten Annexe (July 1940-July 1945)
• 28 Hyde Park Gate (October 1945-1965)*
• 10 Downing Street (December 1951-April 1955)

Country Houses

• Lullenden, East Grinstead, W. Sussex (Spring 1917-Autumn 1919)
• Chartwell, Westerham, Kent (April 1924 to 1965)

Temporary Quarters

• 22 Carlton House Terrace (Spring 1909, loaned by Freddie Guest)
• Pear Tree Cottage, Overstrand, near Cromer, Norfolk (Summer 1914)
• 21 Arlington Street (May-June 1915, loaned by Ivor Guest)
• Hoe Farm, Godalming, Surrey (Summer 1915)
• 16 Lower Berkeley Street (Autumn 1918)
• 3 Tenderden Street (Autumn 1918)
• Templeton, Roehampton (Winter 1919-Spring 1920, with Freddie Guest)
• 62 Onslow Gardens (Nov.-Dec. 1929, rented from Venetia Montagu)
• Hosey Rigge, Westerham (1923-24; nicknamed “Cosey Pigge” by WSC)
• 67 Westminster Gardens (Jul.-Oct. 1945, loaned by Duncan Sandys)