Southill Park

Southill Park in 1824

Southill Park is a country house in Southill, Bedfordshire. It is a Grade I Listed building.

History

The house was built for George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington in the 1720s and, after its grounds had been landscaped by Capability Brown in 1777, the building was remodelled by Henry Holland in 1777.[1] The house was acquired from the Byng family by Samuel Whitbread in 1795 and remains in the ownership of the Whitbread family.[2] In 1930, in an article in Country Life, Christopher Hussey wrote that Southill "is a complete work of art to an extent that is true of few other great English homes of any period ... (It) must be acknowledged the classic example of the most civilised decade in the whole range of English domestic architecture."[3]

Designations

The garden is registered by English Heritage for its special historic interest,[4] and part of it is a Site of Special Scientific Interest called Southill Lake and Woods.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Southill Park, Biggleswade, England". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Southill Park". Bedfordshire County Council. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Hussey, Christopher (1930), Country Life
  4. ↑ "Southill Park". Historic England. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Southill Lake and Woods citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Map of Southill Lake and Woods". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 31 August 2015.

Coordinates: 52°03′54″N 0°19′59″W / 52.06510°N 0.33316°W / 52.06510; -0.33316

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