The Old Court House The Old Court House The Old Court House is a Grade II* listed house located off Hampton Court Green in Richmond upon Thames in south west London whose origins date back to 1536. The architect Sir Christopher Wren, who lived there from 1708 to 1723, was given a 50-year lease on the property by Queen Anne in lieu of overdue payments for his work on St Paul's Cathedral. The lease passed from Wren's son to his grandson. It was purchased from the Crown Estate in 1984. King Henry VIII obtained the newly built Hampton Court Palace from Cardinal Wolsey in
HMS Hampton Court (1709) November 1745 she encountered her fellow Royal Navy vessel . The crew of both vessels mistook the other for a French man-o-war and opened fire at long range. The engagement ended after half an hour, when crew aboard "Defiance" observed British markings on the cannonballs striking their ship and signaled for a truce. "Hampton Court" remained in service until 1744, when she was broken up., see above, she was relaunched in 1744 HMS Hampton Court (1709) HMS "Hampton Court" was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe according to the 1706 Establishment and