Gore House

You are standing on the site of Gore House, a structure that once defined this corner of London long before the towering rotunda of the Royal Albert Hall claimed the land. Built in the seventeen fifties, this mansion sat amidst three acres of grounds and served as a high-society anchor for the area. Its history is anchored by two very different, yet equally famous, residents who shaped its legacy. Before it became a hub of artistic scandal, the house was the home of William Wilberforce, the renowned parliamentarian and philanthropist. Between eighteen zero eight and eighteen twenty-one, Wilberforce lived here while he led the historic campaign to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire. You are walking over the ground where he spent over a decade orchestrating one of the most significant moral shifts in modern political history. Continue