Pythouse, sometimes spelt Pyt House and pronounced pit-house, is a country house near Tisbury in Wiltshire, in the west of England.
Pythouse was built about 1725 and was rebuilt in 1805 by John Benett (1773–1852), the then-owner and amateur architect, who "Palladianized" the house. Rear service wings were added in 1891.
Described as a "fine classical house",[1] Pythouse is set in parkland with a ha-ha. With its Ionic portico, the front is very similar to and probably inspired the front of the nearby Philipps House in Dinton, which was begun a little later in 1813 and designed by Sir Jeffry Wyatville.
The house remained in the Benett family until the mid 1950s, when death duties forced its sale. The house was then owned and used for forty-six years by the Country Houses Association, a charity which ran it as a retirement home.[2]
Pythouse (together with 95 acres (380,000 m2) of land) was sold again in 2004 for £7 million and is once more a residential home.[3][4]