Stud House

{{Short description|House in London, England}}

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Stud House is an early 18th-century house in the centre of Hampton Court Park near Hampton Court Palace.{{cite book|author=Edwards, Jesse E.|title=A Summers Day at Hampton Court Being a Guide to the Palace and Gardens: With an Illustrative Catalogue of the Pictures According to the New Arrangement Including Those in the Apartments Recently Opened to the|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dKxEVfFoYRMC|year=1841|publisher=John Murray|page=66}} It is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England.{{NHLE|num=1080799|desc=The Stud House|date = 2 September 1952|access-date=2 April 2018}} It was traditionally the official residence of the Master of the Horse.{{cite book|author=Murray, John Fisher|title=A Picturesque Tour of the River Thames in Its Western Course: Including Particular Descriptions of Richmond, Windsor and Hampton Court|url=https://archive.org/details/picturesquetouro00murr|year=1845|publisher=H.G. Bohn|page=[https://archive.org/details/picturesquetouro00murr/page/183 183]}} The former stables at the house are separately listed, also at Grade II.{{NHLE|num=1286352|desc=Stables to the Stud House|date = 2 September 1952|access-date=2 April 2018}} The Stud House was built in the 18th century and was altered and expanded between 1817 and 1818.

Stud House was bought by the Russian publisher Evgeny Lebedev in 2007.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/style/the-rise-of-evgeny-lebedev.html|title=The Rise of Evgeny Lebedev|author=Porter, Charlie|date=31 December 2014|work=The New York Times|access-date=11 July 2020}} Its gardens were featured in the 2017 book The Secret Gardeners by Victoria Summerley and photographer Hugo Rittson Thomas. Summerley, Victoria; Rittson Thomas, Hugo (2017). The Secret Gardeners, Francis Lincoln. {{ISBN|9780711237636}} p. 117