Editing Richmond Park (section)

====Former buildings====
[[File:Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., F.R.S. and Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park.png|thumb|Sheen Cottage (above) and [[Sir Richard Owen]]]]
A map by John Eyre, "Plan of His Majesty's New Park", shows a [[summer house]] near Richmond Gate.<ref name= Eyre/>

Several buildings already existed within the park when it was created. One of these was a manor house at Petersham which was renamed Petersham Lodge. During the [[Commonwealth of England|Commonwealth]] period it became accommodation for one of the park's deputy keepers, [[Lodowick Carlell]] (or Carlile), who was also a renowned playwright in his day,<ref>McDowall, p. 47</ref> and his wife, [[Joan Carlile]], one of the first women to practise painting professionally.<ref name="Toynbee and Isham">{{cite journal | jstor= 871403 | title=Joan Carlile (1606?–1679): An Identification | series=Documents concerning artistic associates of Santa Maria della Scala | author1=Margaret Toynbee | author2=[[Gyles Isham]] | journal= [[The Burlington Magazine]]|volume= 96| pages=275–274 |number= 618 |date= September 1954 }}</ref>

Elizabeth, [[Countess of Dysart]], and her husband [[Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet|Sir Lionel Tollemache]] took over Petersham Lodge when they became joint keepers of Richmond Park. After Tollemache's death the Lodge and its surrounding land were leased in 1686 to [[Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester]], whose sister [[Anne Hyde|Anne]] was married to the new king, [[James II of England|James II]]. It became a private park and was subsequently landscaped. By 1692 Rochester had demolished the Lodge and replaced it with a splendid new mansion in his "New Park". In 1732, a new Petersham Lodge was built to replace it after a fire.<ref>Cloake, p. 28</ref> This Petersham Lodge was demolished in 1835.<ref name = "Cloake 190"/>

Professor [[Sir Richard Owen]], the first Director of the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]], lived at Sheen Cottage until his death in 1892.<ref name = "WoodSC"/><ref name="Victorian scientist">{{cite news | url=https://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/452137.remembering-victorian-scientist/| title=Remembering Victorian scientist | work=[[Richmond and Twickenham Times]] | author=James Adlam|date=22 January 2004 | access-date=31 July 2023}}</ref> The cottage was destroyed by enemy action in 1944.<ref name = "WoodSC"/><ref>McDowall, pp. 94–95</ref> The remains of the cottage can be seen in patches and irregularities in the wall 220 metres from Sheen Gate.<ref name = "WoodSC"/><ref name = "McDowall 73"/>

A [[bandstand]], similar to one in [[Kensington Gardens]], was erected near Richmond Gate in 1931. In 1975, after many years of disuse, it was moved to [[Regent's Park]].<ref name="Photographs86">{{cite book | title=Richmond in Old Photographs | publisher=Alan Sutton Publishing | editor=[[John Cloake]] |author=Compiled by members of the [[Richmond, London#Societies|Richmond Local History Society]] | page= 86 |year = 1990| isbn=978-0-86299-855-4}}</ref>