Hotham House is a commercial building in

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, in the

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, and the UK headquarters of

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and

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. It is situated on the eastern side of the

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, east of

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, at the junction of the A305 and

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History

The original Hotham House, built in 1720, fell into disrepair and collapsed in 1960, and was demolished.''

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'', Tuesday 29 March 1960, page 6 The name of the building came from

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Sir William Hotham, who lived there in 1810. The name was resurrected in the 1980s as part of the new Richmond Riverside development.

Construction

Construction of the redeveloped series of buildings began in 1984 and finished in 1987 in a £20m renovation funded by the Pension Fund Property Unit Trust. The buildings, designed by

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in a

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style, were opened by the

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on 28 October 1988. eBay opened their London office there in 2003.

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