Bushy House

Bushy House
East side of Bushy House in 1992
Former names	Upper Lodge
General information
Type	House
Architectural style	English classical architecture
Location	Teddington, London, England
Coordinates	51°25′13″N 0°20′21″W / 51.42028°N 0.33917°W / 51.42028; -0.33917
Construction started	1663 (1663)
Renovated	1713–1715
Client	Edward Proger followed by, on rebuild, George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
Owner	Part of National Physical Laboratory
Design and construction
Architect(s)	William Samwell
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name	Bushy House
Designated	2 September 1952
Reference no.	1080870

Bushy House is a Grade II* listed^[1] former residence of King William IV and Queen Adelaide in Teddington, London, which Lord Halifax had constructed for his own enjoyment on the site of a previous house Upper Lodge, Bushy Park, between 1714 and 1715.

It is part of the National Physical Laboratory and its upper two storeys overlook adjoining Bushy Park. The house and 30 acres (12 ha) of surrounding Bushy Park land were taken as the site for the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in 1900 after concerns about flooding of the previously proposed site in the Old Deer Park, Richmond; it opened as part of this important laboratory in 1902.

The ground floor and basement levels of Bushy House were converted to laboratory space and Richard Glazebrook, the first director of NPL, and later directors, used part of the building as private accommodation. Bushy House contains laboratories, two small museums that mainly contain historical scientific equipment, and rooms used for meetings and conferences.