"Wappenbury Hall"
Wappenbury Hall, a house which was extended during the Imperial period from a small farm house and which has seen further extensions during the 20th century. It is situated 400m north east of the church, Wappenbury.
1 Marked as Wappenbury Hall on OS maps.
2 Although this building is marked as Wappenbury Hall on the latest O.S. maps, technically it is not so. The present owner related the brief details of its history as far as she knew them, as there is no written account of it. Up until 1894 the present house was a (much smaller) farmhouse, and it was then extended and considerably altered by a gentleman, who also built the massive stables (all done out in oak) to house his Hackneys which he intended to breed. (The stables now serve as garage/store-rooms etc.). The present owners extended and improved the house again (adding the drawing room, the wood panelling in the hall, and landscaping the garden to include a swimming pool etc.) and it is all now kept in excellent condition by a team of servants. No precise architectural/historical details (e.g. deeds etc.) could be found, but these modern changes on the whole are quite tasteful and in keeping with the tone and character of the place.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
I’d love to know something about it from around the period of 1911. I found my grandfather’s sister on the 1911 census employed there as a ‘sick nurse’, presumably for the owner/employer, a Mr Darlinson, along with 5 or 6 other servants of some sort, and one other person listed as a Boarder, but no other family members. Rather a high number of servants for only two residents!
Wappenbury Hall was the home of Sir William and Lady Lyons from I believe the mid 1930s until the mid 1980s, when Lady Lyons passed away. Sir William’s was the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive of Jaguar Motor Cars. Sir William was also the man responsible for the elegant styling of Jaguar cars, he gave us the Jaguar shape!
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