Grittleton House - Chippenham 4.1

Chippenham, SN14
United Kingdom
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Grittleton House is a country house in the village of Grittleton, Wiltshire, England, about 5+1/2mi northwest of the town of Chippenham. The house was built between 1832 and 1856 for Joseph Neeld, to designs of James Thomson. In 1988 it was designated as a Grade II* listed building.HistoryOn this site, across the road from St Mary's Church, stood a three-bay Jacobean manor house, dating from 1660. The estate was bought in 1828 by Joseph Neeld, a London lawyer who had inherited a substantial sum, and Grittleton became his country seat.In the first phase of work for Neeld, c. 1832-40 to designs of James Thomson, the earlier house was partly refaced and added to. A major extension of 1852-6 saw the demolition of the old house. Designs for this phase were at first again by Thomson, who was replaced by Henry Clutton in 1853; however, Thomson appears to have completed the house in 1854-6. Pevsner wrote of the house: "It is really a monstrosity. It has Jacobean gables and a Jacobean central tower, but windows of a long, thin, Veneto-Byzantine variery, and odd oriels in unexpected places".After Joseph Neeld's death in 1856 the estate was inherited by his brother John.Associated buildingsThomson designed an extensive complex of stables, coach houses and related facilities, built to the south of the house c. 1835. Nearby improvements to the estate included the destruction of the hamlet of Upper Foscote, except for one 17th-century house.

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