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Description: | The house was so named because of its connection with Sir William Herschel who moved there in 1786 from Datchet. In the garden of the house Sir William Herschel constructed two telescopes: a 20ft. telescope in 1786 and a much larger one at 40ft in 1789.
The house remained in the Herschel family until 1957 and was demolished in 1963. The telescopes were dismantled over time and are now in different museums in Britain and America.
Observatory House was a Georgian building with Victorian extensions and was originally known as Ivy House because of the amount of ivy on the building. Later it was known as Grove House and occupied by a Mr. Papendiek before the Herschels moved in. It appears that Mr. Papendiek was at the Hanoverian Court before coming to live in England . | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Houses ; Observatory House ; Ivy House ; Grove House | Temporal: | start=1880-01-01; end=1930-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copy by Reg Harrison | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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