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Queen's House

The Queen's House is a seventeenth-century royal residence in Greenwich, London, designed by Inigo Jones and now part of the Old Royal Naval College complex. It is celebrated as England's first consciously classical building and contains named interior spaces such as the Great Hall and the Tulip Staircase, and a first-floor gallery used historically to display paintings.

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First raised

1616

Its prime

1638

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1638

What Queen's House looked like in its prime.

A compact, perfectly proportioned two-storey white-painted classical villa with a central Ionic loggia on the south front, set on an axial lawn leading to the River Thames. The south façade is symmetrical, with regular rectangular windows and a restrained entablature. Inside, the Great Hall is a perfect cube with black-and-white geometric marble flooring and a first-floor gallery; the Tulip Staircase is an unsupported wrought-iron spiral rising beneath a glazed lantern and the Great Hall ceiling is occupied by painted canvases.

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10 places to explore in 1638.

The record describes 10 distinct spots at Queen's House — including 6 interiors: first-floor central bridge (interior bridge above the entrance), great hall at floor level, looking up to the painted ceiling, great hall first-floor gallery looking across the cube and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Axial approach down the lawn toward the south front and River ThamesApproach from the hospital courtyard framed by colonnadesSouth loggia with Ionic columns (exterior close-up)First-floor central bridge (interior bridge above the entrance)Great Hall at floor level, looking up to the painted ceilingGreat Hall first-floor gallery looking across the cubeTulip Staircase viewed from its base, looking up through the lanternUpper landing of the Tulip Staircase looking down the spiralDetail of the black-and-white geometric marble floorFaçade close-up showing symmetrical windows and proportions

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