Listonhill, Historical house in Stockholm, Sweden.
Listonhill is a villa built in 1790–1791 to designs by Fredrik Magnus Piper for Robert Liston, the English ambassador. Its plan follows Andrea Palladio and Sir John Soane, with a central rotunda expressed as a projecting salon on the south facade. Built in timber framing and clad in smooth panels, it retains its original interior.
The house was built in 1791 during a period of architectural change in Sweden. This era marked the transition from French-influenced garden design to English garden styles.
The house reveals how wealthy families in Sweden arranged their daily life and organized rooms according to social needs. Walking through it today, you can see which spaces were used for different purposes and how people moved between them.
The villa stands on Djurgårdsvägen, with the main building at numbers 216–218 and the former carriage house and stables at number 221. The green-painted carriage house and the old coachman's residence behind it are visible from the road; the coachman's house was restored in the 1950s and raised by one storey. The west side borders one of Sweden's northernmost beech stands, planted in the 1820s on the initiative of Israel af Ström.
The building preserves details from its original 1791 design that reveal how rooms were carefully arranged in that era. These unchanged elements offer a rare look at Swedish residential design from that specific time.
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