{"id":25133,"date":"2006-06-08T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/06\/08\/twickenham-house\/"},"modified":"2006-06-08T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T06:15:00","slug":"twickenham-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25133","title":{"rendered":"Twickenham House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06060801.jpg\" \/><br \/>Joseph Tomkins built Twickenham House in 1756, and this year the building celebrates its 250 Anniversary. The main house, at 20 East St Helens Street, is a fine Georgian brick building of classical proportions.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06060802.jpg\" \/><br \/>At the side is where the carriages would have been driven and horses stabled.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06060803.jpg\" \/><br \/>The front door has classical columns and a pediment (that is the triangular top) with a moulded frieze.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06060804.jpg\" \/><br \/>The main entrance for cars is to the corporate car park from Turn Again Lane. They still have a croquet lawn behind the hedge in what would have been the stable area and back garden.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06060805.jpg\" \/><br \/>Twickenham House is currently the head office of a company called Harding &amp; Yorke Ltd who specialise in Customer Relations.<\/p>\n<p>Their web site has a virtual floor mapof Twickenham House with names and roles of people on each floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Tomkins built Twickenham House in 1756, and this year the building celebrates its 250 Anniversary. The main house, at 20 East St Helens Street, is a fine Georgian brick building of classical proportions.At the side is where the carriages would have been driven and horses stabled.The front door has classical columns and a pediment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}