Ranger's House
Ranger's House
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Greenwich Mean Time starts here, so to speak, as the very concept of global time was established at Royal Observatory, just one of several buildings of architectural interest in Greenwich. Indeed, the whole of Greenwich's historic town center, its Royal Park and a number of related buildings (and one world famous ship, the Cutty Sark) make up the UNESCO World Heritage site known as Maritime Greenwich. Today a laser beam is shot out across the night sky from the Observatory to mark the location of the Prime Meridian. Other bold (some say brash) 21st century additions to the area include landmarks such as The O2 entertainment complex (previously known as the Millennium Dome) and the Air Line cable cars, which offer scenic transport across the Thames between North Greenwich and the Royal Docks.
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Steve
London, UK21 contributions
Jun 2021
I was really excited about seeing Rangers House. Booked online for 12th June. Then saw Google said it was closed today. I telephone English Heritage and they said its definetly open you shouldnt pay much attention to google. I travelled an hour and a half and the lady at door said it was closed due to fire alarm problem - which is fine and understandable. However I got and still have no notification it was being closed. The staff member said I should email to complain. I would have done except there was no email. Entire day wasted. If they have to close at short notice they should notify ticket holders.
Written 12 June 2021
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Dear Stephen,
Thank you for taking the time to review your visit to Rangers House. On the day you tried to visit, the fire alarm developed a fault at the last minute, just before we were set to open and sounded for the whole morning. We cannot allow access to visitors without a fully functioning alarm for obvious reasons.
Unfortunately, the Google opening times that are displayed are indeed, very unreliable and cannot be corrected by the relevant organisations. Please visit the English Heritage website to check the very latest information before visiting any of our properties.
Written 22 September 2021
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Michel_Louise_2013
Quebec City, Canada28,297 contributions
Apr 2023 • Couples
Listed as a built heritage site in the United Kingdom in 1951, Ranger’s House served, as its name suggests, as the ranger’s house for Greenwich Royal Park. Medium-sized red-brick Georgian mansion, built c. 1722–23 at the request of Vice-Admiral Francis Hosier (1673–1727), in the Palladian style, to designs by the British architect John James (≈1673–1746 ), Ranger's House was later home to several famous people who added their personal touch to the building: in 1748, the British statesman and diplomat Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773); in 1784, Richard Hulse (1727-1805), deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1799 to 1805; in 1888, British Army Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833–1913), etc. Ranger's House today houses the Wernher Collection, an art collection amassed by the businessman Sir Julius Charles Wernher, 1st Baronet (1850–1912) including more than 700 works exhibited in a dozen rooms: medieval sculptures, jewelry and enamels, paintings, including the “Madonna della Melagrana” created in the workshop of Sandro Botticelli , as well as French tapestries. Also worth seeing near this manor are the rose garden (in summer) and the avenue of cherry blossoms (in spring).
Written 9 October 2023
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Jacandhow
Watford, UK2,203 contributions
Aug 2021
We were on our way to Bromley for the August Bank Holiday weekend, stopped off here for a visit as we are English Heritage members.
Parking is a little difficult only a few bays in the front, our friends parked in what they thought was a parking bay, and lucky for them a council van stopped and told them to move as even with a blue badge they would of got a ticket,
You are not allowed to take any photos, given a small introduction, with of facts and figures, then you wander around the rooms at your own pace, there are cards and books in each room to explain, what all the lovely things are that you are seeing.
Small shop and toilet available, worth a look if you are in the area, one to two hours well spent
Parking is a little difficult only a few bays in the front, our friends parked in what they thought was a parking bay, and lucky for them a council van stopped and told them to move as even with a blue badge they would of got a ticket,
You are not allowed to take any photos, given a small introduction, with of facts and figures, then you wander around the rooms at your own pace, there are cards and books in each room to explain, what all the lovely things are that you are seeing.
Small shop and toilet available, worth a look if you are in the area, one to two hours well spent
Written 19 September 2021
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Thank you for this review of your visit to Ranger's House. The parking outside is operated by Greenwich Council with around twenty bays which are free except Monday to Friday, 9am to 10am. If there are no places left, there is a small charge to park in Greenwich Park which is just a few minutes walk away.
Written 20 September 2021
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Win Task
Bedford, UK1,787 contributions
Sept 2024 • Couples
To be honest, don't waste your money and time because nothing interesting as people making stories of it wow, fabulous, great, not even close to it.
There's ban on taking photos and sharing it on Google Maps. Wish I can give it 0 star
After the visit, I was thinking is there any point to visit Ranger House. No not at all
There's ban on taking photos and sharing it on Google Maps. Wish I can give it 0 star
After the visit, I was thinking is there any point to visit Ranger House. No not at all
Written 17 September 2024
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Der E
London, UK32 contributions
Sept 2020
Friendly welcome, plenty of sanitiser, control on numbers, so it felt very safe and comfortable. Time and space to study any of the beautiful items that catch your eye. We sat in the rose garden behind the house for our picnic. A beautiful & stress free outing. (as opposed to the very stressful & unsafe visit to the V&A Kimono exhibition!). We walked into Blackheath where the shops are also well organised and customers keep to the rules, wait outside until there is space and wear masks. All in all a very successful day out.
Written 19 September 2020
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Thank you so much for such a great review and we are so pleased to hear that the measures we put in place made you feel safe.
Written 20 September 2021
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Emily
London, UK468 contributions
Apr 2022
Interesting collection, a wide range of objects.
Building was decorated well in keeping with the collection.
Staff were friendly & helpful.
Worth a look. Shouldn't need much more than an hour.
Pleasant location next to the park also.
Building was decorated well in keeping with the collection.
Staff were friendly & helpful.
Worth a look. Shouldn't need much more than an hour.
Pleasant location next to the park also.
Written 2 April 2022
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Thank you Emily for taking the time to review your visit to Rangers House, it is much appreciated.
Written 9 November 2022
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KAW687
London, UK2,592 contributions
May 2024 • Couples
Have been looking forward to this visit for some time but found it rather disappointing. We didn't feel very welcome. Some of it was closed. It was dark and gloomy despite the sunshine. No photographs are allowed. There is some interesting stuff especially the Chinese tapestries and the mourning jewellery but not easy to get information on them so had to look them up when I got home.
Written 15 September 2024
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Love and laughter 😍
London, UK679 contributions
Jun 2023 • Solo
Living locally I had meant to visit sooner but to kill some time today and take shade from the sun, I went this afternoon. It didn’t disappoint, such beautiful displays and really helpful staff. I loved the tiny gift shop too so could pick up some little treats ❤️ beautiful grounds/rose garden too. Perfectly spent afternoon! Highly recommend!
Written 14 June 2023
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Brian T
London, UK8,046 contributions
Jun 2022 • Solo
This beautiful Georgian mansion, Ranger’s House, is located at the southern end of Greenwich Park in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It was built in 1723 as a lodging for the then keepers (or rangers) of Greenwich Park. The rangers were royal appointments that were essentially title only, and given this lavish grace-and-favour lodging for their tireless efforts. The last ‘ranger’ lived there in 1896.
Today the house contains the Wernher Collection, a stunning and lavish collection of works of art (including a painting attributed to Botticelli), divine French and German porcelain, ornate Renaissance jewellery encrusted with diamonds and other precious stones, and antiquities from Ancient Greece, all amassed by the 19th-century German businessman, Sir Julius Wernher. He apparently made his cash in the gold and diamond mines in South Africa.
The house is certainly worth a visit. It is under the management of English Heritage. Adult tickets cost £10.00 and a concession for seniors is £9.00. Unfortunately you cannot take photographs in the house.
There’s quite a few rooms you can see, all upstairs. Arranged within the panelled interiors of this graceful mansion is a glittering spectacle: a sumptuous arrangement of silver and jewels, paintings and porcelain. Nearly 700 works of art are on display, including early religious paintings and pieces from the Dutch Old Masters, tiny carved Gothic ivories, fine Renaissance bronzes and silver treasures revealing the genius of medieval craftsmen and the unparalleled quality of Renaissance decorative arts. I particularly loved the collections of Sevres and Meissen porcelain. There’s plenty of information folders in each room to explain the contents.
The grandest room in the house is the long elongated drawing room. It’s lined with tapestries and contains a life size marble sculpture by Bergonzoli of an angel kissing a semi-nude woman entitled "The Love of Angels".
The house is not open on Monday and Tuesday. I didn’t book online; I just showed up at the opening time. If you enter the gate to the right side of the house, you’ll be in the Rose Garden of Greenwich Park; from this Rose Garden you’ll get a lovely view of the back of the house.
The house is located towards the southern end of Greenwich Park. If walking from the attractions of Royal Greenwich, walk up Crooms Hill and then take Chesterfield Walk. You’ll come to the front entrance f the house. There is parking in front of the house. Alternatively you can walk up the hill past the Royal Observatory until you get to a sign for the Rose Garden. Head to the Rose Garden and the rear of the house will be in front of you. The gate to the front entrance to the house is to your left.
It’s an interesting house to visit and I hope you find it as enjoyable as I did.
Today the house contains the Wernher Collection, a stunning and lavish collection of works of art (including a painting attributed to Botticelli), divine French and German porcelain, ornate Renaissance jewellery encrusted with diamonds and other precious stones, and antiquities from Ancient Greece, all amassed by the 19th-century German businessman, Sir Julius Wernher. He apparently made his cash in the gold and diamond mines in South Africa.
The house is certainly worth a visit. It is under the management of English Heritage. Adult tickets cost £10.00 and a concession for seniors is £9.00. Unfortunately you cannot take photographs in the house.
There’s quite a few rooms you can see, all upstairs. Arranged within the panelled interiors of this graceful mansion is a glittering spectacle: a sumptuous arrangement of silver and jewels, paintings and porcelain. Nearly 700 works of art are on display, including early religious paintings and pieces from the Dutch Old Masters, tiny carved Gothic ivories, fine Renaissance bronzes and silver treasures revealing the genius of medieval craftsmen and the unparalleled quality of Renaissance decorative arts. I particularly loved the collections of Sevres and Meissen porcelain. There’s plenty of information folders in each room to explain the contents.
The grandest room in the house is the long elongated drawing room. It’s lined with tapestries and contains a life size marble sculpture by Bergonzoli of an angel kissing a semi-nude woman entitled "The Love of Angels".
The house is not open on Monday and Tuesday. I didn’t book online; I just showed up at the opening time. If you enter the gate to the right side of the house, you’ll be in the Rose Garden of Greenwich Park; from this Rose Garden you’ll get a lovely view of the back of the house.
The house is located towards the southern end of Greenwich Park. If walking from the attractions of Royal Greenwich, walk up Crooms Hill and then take Chesterfield Walk. You’ll come to the front entrance f the house. There is parking in front of the house. Alternatively you can walk up the hill past the Royal Observatory until you get to a sign for the Rose Garden. Head to the Rose Garden and the rear of the house will be in front of you. The gate to the front entrance to the house is to your left.
It’s an interesting house to visit and I hope you find it as enjoyable as I did.
Written 25 September 2022
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What an absolutely marvelous review of your visit to Rangers' House, we're glad you enjoyed it. The house was actually meant to be a retirement home for Vice Admiral Hosier originally but he died of yellow fever in the West Indies and it wasn't the home of the Ranger of Greenwich Park until the early 19th century.
The collection is actually on loan and this is the reason that photography is not permitted.
Written 9 November 2022
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Holly Fryett
London, UK306 contributions
Apr 2022 • Family
Absolutely stunning! I am a huge Bridgerton fan so it was so cool to see! Beautiful building! Highly recommend visiting. It was shut due to a bank holiday but hoping to visit inside next time :)
Written 1 May 2022
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Dear Holly,
Thank you for taking the time to review your visit to Rangers House. The property is open Wednesday to Sunday from April to October then is closed all winter for a deep clean.
Written 9 November 2022
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Small children may find it rather boring, older ones might find it interesting. It is quite dark inside to protect all the paintings so they may not like it.
Written 18 January 2019
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