Coton Manor
| Coton Manor | |
| Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
| File:Coton Manor - geograph.org.uk - 1095806.jpg Coton Manor | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP67467162 |
| Location: | 52°20’19"N, 1°-0’41"W |
| Village: | Coton |
| History | |
| Built 1662 / from 1926 | |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Pasley-Tyler family |
| Website: | cotonmanor.co.uk |
Coton Manor is a modest country manor house in Coton in Northamptonshire, built in the 17th century Restoration period and developed and extended in the 1920s. It is todaty a Grade II listed building.[1]
The gardens and bluebell woods are a popular visitor attraction.
History
The manor is found listed in the Domesday Book. An early house stood here, but was destroyed in the Civil War.
In 1662, the owner built a new house, using stone salvaged from nearby Holdenby House. In time though the estate declined and the house was a farmhouse by the 1800s.[2]
In 1926 the house and garden were purchased by new owners, arrivied from Florida. They sympathetically extended the building to create a quintessential manor house with a garden. It has remained in the family since then.
The garden has been developed continually, and is now opene to visitors; thousands come to visit the garden each year.
The house however remains a private home.
Outside links
| ("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Coton Manor) |
- Coton Manor
- A tour around Coton Manor gardens: The Northamptonshire Telegraph, Tuesday 31 July 2012
- ↑ National Heritage List 1227992: Coton Manor
- ↑ Benson, Dr Ann: 'A History of Coton Manor and its Garden'