Middleton Park, Oxfordshire
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.jpg) The Gate Lodge, Middleton Park | |
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| Grid reference: | SP52492324 |
| Location: | 51°54’19"N, 1°14’18"W |
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Middleton Park is country house and its rural park in Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, about two and a half miles west of Bicester. The house is a Grade I listed building[1] with Grade II* listed service wing and lodges.[2]
The grounds are Grade II listed.[3]
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History
The current house was designed by the architect Edwin Lutyens and his son Robert for George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey. It was built in 1935–38 on the site of a mid-18th-century house that had been built for William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey. It was Lutyens' last great country house. In 1974 it was converted into apartments.[3] The estate is privately owned.
In the park east of the house are Middleton's Grade II* listed Norman parish church[4] and the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[5] The park also includes kitchen gardens, pleasure grounds, commercial woodland and the cricket ground belonging to Middleton Stoney Cricket Club.[6]
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1232948: Middleton Park (Grade I listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1232953: Middleton Park service wing and southern pair of forecourt lodges (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 National Heritage List 1001405: Middleton Park (Register of Historic Parks and Gardens)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1276839: Church of All Saints (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1015164: Middleton Stoney Castle (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
- ↑ "Welcome". Middleton Stoney Cricket Club. http://www.middletonstoneycc.co.uk/. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 6 pp 243-251: Parishes: Middleton Stoney (Victoria County History)
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09639-2