Sandridge Park
- Not to be confused with Sandridge Park, Melksham
| Sandridge Park | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Sandridge Park | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX85995648 |
| Location: | 50°23’50"N, 3°36’19"W |
| History | |
| For: | Lady Ashburton by John Nash |
| Country house | |
| Regency | |
| Information | |
Sandridge Park, near Stoke Gabriel, Devon, is a country house in the Italianate style, designed by John Nash around 1805 for the Dowager Lady Ashburton, née Elizabeth Baring, the wife of John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton. It is a Grade II* listed building.[1]
The house is considered to be a late intimation of Nash's development of the Italianate style. Commissioned by the dowager Lady Ashburton as a country retreat, this small country house clearly shows the transition between the picturesque of William Gilpin and Nash's yet to be fully evolved Italianism. While this house can still be described as 'Regency', its informal asymmetrical plan together with its loggias and balconies of both stone and wrought iron; tower and low pitched roof clearly are very similar to the fully Italianate design of Cronkhill.[2]
History
The Manor of Sandridge, on high ground at the head of the River Dart estuary, was held by the Sandridges under the Bishop of Exeter in King Henry II's reign. Captain John Davis, the great Elizabethan navigator and explorer, was probably born at Sandridge Barton, the manor farm, in 1543. The Nash house took the place of the former house, which had belonged to the descendants of Sir Thomas Pomeroy until the eighteenth century.[3] "Gilbert, Esq." is recorded as the owner in 1763.
By 1951 the house lay unoccupied, "the park ragged and decaying".[4] Restoration included preservation of the existing fabric and the addition of pergolas to the east and west of the existing building. The work was awarded the Highly Commended, Single Dwelling Category Architect of the Year Awards 2006.[5]
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1108493: Sandridge Park
- ↑ "Sandridge, Paignton, England". Parks and Gardens Data Services Ltd. http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/4376/history. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ↑ Pomeroy family in Devon
- ↑ W. G. Hoskins: 'Devon' (1954)
- ↑ "Stoke Gabriel". McLean Qunlan. http://www.mcleanquinlan.com/country/stoke-gabriel. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
- Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 3rd ed. 1995: "John Nash"
- Devon County Council: Stoke Gabriel