Eagle House is a Grade One Listed Queen Anne house built in the Dutch style. It is on London Road,

Mitcham Mitcham is an area within the London Borough of Merton in South London, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross. Originally a village in the county of Surrey, today it is mainly a residential suburb, and includes Mitcham Common. It ...

, in the

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, the grounds forming a triangle bounded by London Road, Bond Road and Western Road. The building dates back to 1705, having been commissioned by the

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doctor Fernando Mendes (1647–1724), former physician to Charles II, and in whose family it remained for three generations. Following the death in 1821 of the last private occupant—the widow of City banker John Bond—the property was converted into a private boarding school for young gentlemen'Eagle House, Mitcham',''Merton Council History and Heritage''
accessed 3 December 2011 (presumably nearby Bond Road reflects the Bond connection). In the early days of the Holborn Union Industrial Schools, built in the northern part of the estate, it served as the school infirmary. In 1933, the building was bought by the

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, for the care of 'intellectual disabled girls'. Since 2005, the building has been a school for children and young people with

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References

{{reflist *Local newspaper, ''Mitcham News & Mercury'', dated 16 June 1933, under the ''Mitcham Odds and Ends'' heading. Houses completed in 1705 History of Surrey Grade I listed houses in London Houses in the London Borough of Merton 1705 establishments in England Country houses in London