Aragon House

{{Short description|Pub in Parsons Green, London}}

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Aragon House is a Grade II listed public house at 249 New King's Road, Parsons Green, London.{{National Heritage List for England |num=1286614 |desc=Aragon House|access-date=3 April 2015}}

It was built in 1805–06, but the architect is not known.

Aragon House gets its name from having been the site of a dower house belonging to Queen Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives.{{cite web|title=History |url=http://www.aragonhouse.net/history.php |work=Aragon House |publisher=Aragon House |access-date=15 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215014503/http://www.aragonhouse.net/history.php |archive-date=15 December 2013 }}

Aragon House and Gosford Lodge were built on the site of a villa that the author Samuel Richardson lived in from 1756 until his death in 1761.{{cite book|last=Weinreb|first=Ben|author-link = Ben Weinreb|title=The London Encyclopaedia|year=2009|publisher=Macmillan|location=London|isbn=978-1405049252|page=627|edition=3rd}}

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