It was built in 1920–1921 as a cinema, called the Whiteladies Picture House, by James Henry LaTrobe and Thomas Henry Weston and opened by the Duchess of Beaufort on 29 Nov 1921.
She lived here with her close relative Mary, Duchess of Beaufort, wife of the 10th Duke.
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