Kenwood House, also called the Iveagh Bequest, is a Georgian and Neoclassical country house on the northern edge of Hampstead Heath. It is Grade I listed. John Bill originally built it around 1616, and William Bridges rebuilt it in 1694. Robert Adam remodeled it for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield. His work from 1764 added the library and the Ionic portico. The article gives no completion year, so the date shown is assumed.
The north front is stucco with a central portico, and the south front was restored in 1975. The service wing is London stock brick, with a Westmorland slate roof. The gardens are probably by Humphry Repton, and sculptures by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore stand nearby.
Edward Guinness, Earl of Iveagh, bought it in 1925 and left it to the nation on his death in 1927. It reopened in 1950 after the war, and had 134,238 visitors in 2019.
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