BURGH HOUSE
Burgh House was constructed in 1704 and is an historic house located on New End Square in Hampstead, London, the house is also known as Burgh House & Hampstead Museum. After a career as a private residence from 1937 until after the Second World War the house remained unoccupied and fell into disrepair. In 1946 Hampstead Borough Council purchased the house and the following year it was reopened as a Community Centre with a Citizen's Advice Bureau in the basement, but it was closed in 1977 as dry rot was discovered. A charitable trust was formed which raised fifty thousand pounds for refurbishment when Camden Council approved a lease, and the house was reopened in 1979 as a house and museum. Since then, the need for further repairs and modernisation became apparent and a £800k scheme was drawn up and was successfully backed by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the fully modernised and refurbished building was formally opened in the summer of 2006. The first floor houses the Hampstead Museum, with permanent exhibits on local history and culture. There are also first floor and ground galleries for temporary exhibits of art, local history, and culture. Highlights of the fine art collection include works by the Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889-1946), Malvina Cheek (1915-2016), Fred Uhlman (1901-1985), Donald Chisholm Towner (1903-1985), Sidney Arrobus (1901-1990), Helen Allingham (1848-1926) and Duncan James Corrowr Grant (1885-1978). Suffolk artists who exhibited at Burgh House include Tony Hatt, Belinda King and Sarah Elizabeth Sloan.