Cleaning Company in Mansion House, London

We are a full service commercial cleaning provider specializing in the needs of business, institutions and industry.
At our Mansion House based cleaning company we offer a wide variety of services from scheduled housecleaning, office cleaning, special occasion and one-time cleaning to new construction and remodel cleaning. Our staff also offers apartment, condo and townhouse turnover cleanings.
Our agency strives to be the best cleaning company in the Mansion House business, our customers are our first priority, and we are dedicated to meeting the customers cleaning needs. We understand how important is the clean and healthy work environment and our professionally trained teams will exceed expectations. Feel free to contact our Mansion House cleaning company and let our specialists know how they can serve your cleaning needs.

Covered postcodes: EC4

Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of the City of London. It is used for some of the City of London's official functions, including the Chancellor of the Exchequer makes an annual "Mansion House Speech" about the state of the British economy. The Guildhall is another venue used for important City functions.

The Mansion House was built between 1739 and 1752, in the then fashionable Palladian style by the City of London surveyor and architect George Dance the Elder. The construction was prompted by a wish to put an end to the inconvenient practice of lodging the Lord Mayor in one of the City Halls. Dance won a design competition over solicited designs from James Gibbs and Giacomo Leoni, and uninvited submissions by Batty Langley and Isaac Ware.

The Mansion House has three main stories over a rusticated basement. The entrance facade features a six column portico. The building originally had two prominent and unusual attic structures, but these were removed in 1794 and 1843. The building is on a confined site, and in the opinion of Sir John Summerson it gives "an impression of uneasily constricted bulk.... On the whole, the building is a striking reminder that good taste was not a universal attribute in the eighteenth century." The main reception room was a colummned hall called the "Egyptian Hall", which was so named because the arrangement of the columns chosen by Dance was deemed to be "Egyptian" by Palladio, rather than because it employed Egptian motifs. British architecture's mild flirtation with Egyptian motifs lay several decades in the future.

In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain made up a story about the construction of the building.

It reminded me of something I had read in my youth about the ingenious way in which the aldermen of London raised the money that built the Mansion House. A person who had not taken the Sacrament according to the Anglican rite could not stand as a candidate for sheriff of London. Thus Dissenters were ineligible; they could not run if asked, they could not serve if elected. The aldermen, who without any question were Yankees in disguise, hit upon this neat device: they passed a by-law imposing a fine of £400 upon any one who should refuse to be a candidate for sheriff, and a fine of £600 upon any person who, after being elected sheriff, refused to serve. Then they went to work and elected a lot of Dissenters, one after another, and kept it up until they had collected £15,000 in fines; and there stands the stately Mansion House to this day, to keep the blushing citizen in mind of a long past and lamented day when a band of Yankees slipped into London and played games of the sort that has given their race a unique and shady reputation among all truly good and holy peoples that be in the earth.
Mansion House is not open to the public except for guided group tours, which must be booked in advance.

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