Built / Designed For: Ernest Ridley Debenham

House & Family History: Debenham is an early 20th century house of three stories by five bays in the Holland Park section of Kensington & Chelsea. Famous for its green glazed pantile roof and its turquoise, green, and white faience glazed brick exterior walls, the Arts & Crafts style house was built for department store owner Ernest Ridley Debenham. The sumptuous Arab style hall contains a mosaic dome painted by Gaetano Meo, William de Morgan tiles, and painted ceilings by Ernest Gimson. The house's most famous resident was Elton John, who made Debenham his London home in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Garden & Outbuildings: There is an adjoining garden house that features tiles by William de Morgan.

House Listed: Grade I

Park Listed: Not Listed

Past Seat / Home of: Ernest Ridley Debenham, early 20th century. Sir Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight), late 20th-early 21st centuries.

Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust

Primary Current Ownership Use: Private Home

House Open to Public: No

Historic Houses Member: No