Worthy Park House

Worthy Park House

Worthy Park House is a large country house at Kings Worthy near Winchester. It is a Grade II* listed building.[1]

History

The original house on the site was built by William Evelyn in 1722.[2] It was bought by Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet in 1773.[3] Sir Charles Ogle, 2nd Baronet inherited the house in 1816 and commissioned Sir Robert Smirke to demolish the west wing and replace it with a new building, built in the Georgian style, which was completed in 1820.[2]

The house was acquired by Samuel Wall, a banker, in 1825 and remained in the Wall family until it passed to Captain C. G. Fryer in the late 1870s.[3] It then remained in the Fryer family passing to Colonel James Butchart, a grandson of Captain Fryer, in the first half of the 20th century.[2] During the Second World War it was taken over by the British Army.[2] After the war it served as a training centre owned first by Currys and then by National Express Group.[2] The house became Prince's Mead School in 1999.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Worthy Park House, Itchen Valley". British listed buildings. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Worthy Park House". Parks and Gardens. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Parishes: Martyr Worthy, in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3, ed. William Page". London. 1908. pp. 325–327. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "History of the house". Prince's Mead School. Retrieved 4 April 2015.

Coordinates: 51°05′36″N 1°17′07″W / 51.09341°N 1.28521°W / 51.09341; -1.28521

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