Museum · Greenwich · London

Queen's House

Queen's House is a historic house museum. Its place is inside Greenwich’s built-up area. It is protected as a scheduled monument.

Photo: Queen's House, Vladimír Procházka (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where

In Greenwich

inside the built-up area

Run by

Royal Museums Greenwich

the operator on record

How well known

Top 1%

#75 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–24°C

In brief

Museum in Greenwich

One of the best-known places to visit in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

#75 of the 8,556 museums, castles, gardens and other attractions we list, by how widely it is covered (33 Wikipedias). About ↓

Inside Greenwich

Queen's House is inside Greenwich’s built-up area, with 43 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Scheduled monument

On the official list of protected heritage; Greenwich has 524 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Weather, month by month

For warmth, aim for May to September (18–24°C highs in Greenwich).

Jan8° / 3°55 mm

Feb9° / 3°44 mm

Mar12° / 4°38 mm

Apr15° / 6°42 mm

May18° / 9°46 mm

Jun21° / 11°47 mm

Jul24° / 14°44 mm

Aug23° / 14°53 mm

Sep20° / 11°47 mm

Oct16° / 9°65 mm

Nov12° / 5°63 mm

Dec9° / 3°57 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Greenwich, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Greenwich. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Greenwich’s full climate →

About

Queen's House

This is a site of Royal Museums Greenwich. There are Wikipedia articles on it in 33 languages. Add Royal Observatory Greenwich, 500 m away, to a visit; it leads 565 places within 15 km.

Greenwich’s listed buildings and monuments →

Type: Museum
Run by: Royal Museums Greenwich
Listed: Scheduled monument
Wikipedias: Covered in 33 languages
Town: in Greenwich
Official site: rmg.co.uk/queens-house

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

Plan your visit

How to visit

Entrance feesFreeNo entrance fee.

Hours and entry: OpenStreetMap contributors. They change through the year: check its site before you go.

The map

Queen's House at a glance

Spot Queen's House in orange, then follow the numbers to the places below.

Towns near it

Towns close to Queen's House

Of the 8, Newham is the largest, at 351,065 people. These are the towns that list it, beginning with its own.

1 · It’s in town

Greenwich

288,117 people · 125 places to visit

2 · 700 m northwest of it

Tower Hamlets

311,072 people · 430 places to visit

3 · 900 m southwest of it

Lewisham

300,764 people · 218 places to visit

4 · 2.4 km west of it

Southwark

307,076 people · 471 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Queen's House is	People	Places to visit
Greenwich	It’s in town	288,117	125
Tower Hamlets	700 m northwest of it	311,072	430
Lewisham	900 m southwest of it	300,764	218
Southwark	2.4 km west of it	307,076	471
Newham	2.6 km northeast of it	351,065	133
Bromley	4.6 km south of it	325,469	66
City of London	7.4 km northwest of it	7,820	432
Lambeth	8.4 km west of it	317,108	450

Make a day of it

Make a day of it near Queen's House

Our list has 565 more within 15 km, among them 4 museums, a castle and a cathedral.

1MuseumMuseumRoyal Observatory Greenwich500 m away 2

Big drawMuseumNational Maritime Museum100 m away · 2.4M visitors a year 3

MuseumCutty Sark400 m away 4

Big drawCastleTower of London5.8 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)5

Big drawMuseumBritish Museum9.5 km away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)6

Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey8.8 km away 7

AttractionElizabeth Tower8.6 km away 8

Historic houseBuckingham Palace9.8 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Queen's House: what to know

Where is Queen's House?

Queen's House is in Greenwich, London, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Queen's House?

Historic house museum in London, UK.

Who runs Queen's House?

Royal Museums Greenwich.

When is the best time to visit Queen's House?

May to September are the warmest months in Greenwich, with afternoon highs of 18–24°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

Is Queen's House a listed building?

Yes: scheduled monument.

What else is there to see near Queen's House?

Within 15 km: Royal Observatory Greenwich (500 m), National Maritime Museum (100 m), Cutty Sark (400 m) and Tower of London (5.8 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (8)

Queen's House: Vladimír Procházka, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
National Maritime Museum: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Cutty Sark: Krzysztof Belczyński from Warsaw, POLAND, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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