Devonshire House preparatory school is based in four large Victorian houses in Hampstead.
Devonshire House was established in 1989 by Michael Loveridge with his family. Mrs Stephanie Piper was appointed as the Headmistress in September 2011 and was previously Headmistress of King’s House School, Richmond.
One of the School’s buildings, 69 Fitzjohn’s Avenue, was previously the premises of the Queen’s House School, an independent day school for girls aged between 9 and 18 established in 1947. The house at 4 Arkwright Road was the former residence of Francis William Topham (1808–1877), a painter and one of Charles Dickens’ illustrators.
