Somerset House
type: Building
type: Q41176
type: ArchitecturalStructure
type: Thing
label: Сомерсет-хаус @uk
label: サマセット・ハウス @ja
label: 萨默塞特府 @zh
subject: Category:Grade I listed museum buildings
subject: Category:Anne of Denmark
subject: Category:Courtauld Institute of Art
subject: Category:Grade I listed government buildings
subject: Category:Neoclassical architecture in London
subject: Category:Strand, London
subject: Category:Royal buildings in London
subject: Category:Grade I listed buildings in the City of Westminster
subject: Category:National government buildings in London
subject: Category:Burned buildings and structures in the United Kingdom
subject: Category:William Chambers buildings
subject: Category:Museums in the City of Westminster
subject: Category:King's College London
subject: Category:Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
subject: Category:Victoria Embankment
subject: Category:HM Revenue and Customs
subject: Category:Houses completed in 1796
subject: Category:Grade I listed educational buildings
subject: Category:Headquarters in the United Kingdom
subject: Category:Catherine of Braganza
subject: Category:Arts centres in London
subject: Category:Henrietta Maria of France
subject: Category:Georgian architecture in the City of Westminster
subject: Category:1796 establishments in England
subject: Category:2024 fires in Europe
subject: Category:Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
subject: Category:Townhouses in the United Kingdom
architect: William Chambers (architect)
location country: United Kingdom
current tenants: Multiple
parliament: Parliament of Great Britain
parliament: Parliament of the United Kingdom
year: 1775
year: 1984
status: current
public transit: Temple
landlord: Somerset House Trust
uk leg title: Somerset House Act 1984
collapsed: yes
designations: Listed building
type: Act
citation: 1984
citation: 15
long title: An Act to confer leasing powers on the Crown in respect of the Fine Rooms and other parts of Somerset House with a view to their use for artistic, cultural or other purposes.
long title: An Act for settling Buckingham House, with the Appurtenances, upon the Queen, in case She shall survive His Majesty, in lieu of His Majesty's Palace of Somerset House; for enabling the Lords, Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to sell and dispose of Ely House in Holborn, and for applying the Money to arise by Sale thereof, together with other Monies, in erecting and establishing Publick Offices in Somerset House; and for embanking certain Parts of the River Thames, lying within the Bounds of the Manor of The Savoy, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
original text: enacted
royal assent: 1984-06-26
royal assent: 1775-05-26
short title: Somerset House Act 1984
short title: Crown Lands Act 1775
mapframe zoom: 14
architectural style: Renaissance architecture
location: London
location: Strand, London
location: WC postcode area
description: gebouw in Londen @nl
description: ロンドンの建築物 @ja
description: building on the Strand, London
description: edificio en el Strand, Londres @es
description: edifici de Londres @ca
description: ancien bâtiment de la Couronne à Londres @fr
description: byggnadskomplex i centrala London, Storbritannien @sv
description: Gebäude am Strand, London @de
description: taidekeskus ja entinen kuninkaallinen palatsi Lontoon Westminsterissä @fi
description: Londra'da bina @tr
description: palác v Londýne @sk
wiki page external link: http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/
wiki page external link: https://archive.org/details/roughguidetolond00hump%7Curl-access=registration%7Cquote=somerset
wiki page external link: https://archive.org/details/roughguidetolond00hump/page/n634
wiki page wiki link: https://dbpedia-live.demo.openlinksw.com/resource/Palace
wiki page wiki link: https://dbpedia-live.demo.openlinksw.com/resource/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London