Cannon Hall, Hampstead

Cannon Hall is located at 14 Cannon Place, Hampstead, London. It was built around 1720 and extended and altered in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The house is detached, of three storeys of brown and red brick, with six bedrooms and grounds of slightly less than half an acre (0.18ha). The total plot size is 0.45 acres (1,807 sq m). The house has been a grade II* listed building with Historic England since 1950. , 1911 ==History==

The land was originally known as Rous's Buildings, probably in reference to Joseph Rous who followed John Duffield as lessee of the Wells Estate, and was originally a much larger area that went as far as Well Road and Christchurch Hill and included three other houses. one of whom was James Marshall, who lived at Cannon Hall in the 1870s. Sarah Holford, a widow, leased the house from at least 1752, and probably from as early as 1745, as a print was published of the Long Room "from Mrs. Holford's garden" in that year. physician-in-ordinary to King George III. Sir James Cosmo Melvill (1792–1861), of the East India Company, bought Cannon Hall around 1838, the year in which he became chief secretary of the company. The cannons which he placed around the site gave it the name Cannon Hall from then on. The house has a blue plaque in his memory, erected by the Greater London Council. The author Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) was aged about 9 when her father bought the house, and she grew up there with her sisters Angela (1904–2002) and Jeanne (1911–1996). File:Sir Noah Thomas (1720-92).jpg|Sir Noah Thomas by George Romney, 1781 File:James Cosmo Melvill.jpg|James Cosmo Melvill by Eton Upton Ellis, c. 1853 File:GeraldDM1205 228x390.jpg|Gerald du Maurier ==In film==

Cannon Hall featured in the film Bunny Lake is Missing (1965), starring Laurence Olivier and directed and produced by Otto Preminger; the house was given the fictional address 30 Frogmore End. It was also featured in the film Tenet (2020), starring John David Washington and directed and produced by Christopher Nolan. ==Sale==

In 2014 the property was placed on sale with an asking price of £32 million. In 2015 it sold for £28 million, one of the highest prices realised for a private home in London that year. ==References==