Minley Manor
| Minley Manor | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 Minley Manor | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU82245802 |
| Location: | 51°18’55"N, 0°49’17"W |
| Village: | Minley |
| History | |
| Built 1860 | |
| For: | Raikes Currie by Henry Clutton |
| French Gothic | |
| Information | |
| Website: | minleymanorevents.co.uk |
Minley Manor is a country manor house within a grand garden, built in the French Gothic style by Henry Clutton in the 1860s with further additions in the 1880s. The Manor stands two miles north of junction 4A of the M3 motorway between Farnborough and Yateley in Hampshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.[1]
The house stands with 80 acres of grounds,[2] and the gardens are themselves listed on the Register of Parks and Gardens.[3]
History
The current manor house was built in the French style by Henry Clutton between 1858 and 1860 for Raikes Currie, a partner in Glyn Mills' Bank. During the next three years attention turned to the estate, with the creation of formal gardens around the house and a kitchen garden. The remainder was landscaped as pleasure gardens by F W Meyer,[4] working with the horticulturists Veitch & Sons of Exeter.
On Raikes' death in 1881, his son Bertram Wodehouse Currie continued the development, employing Messrs Veitch to lay out a Winter Garden and extensions to the pleasure gardens, which included Hawley Lake, in the 1880s. The house was the birthplace of the diplomat Sir Reginald Hoare in 1882.[5] Raikes' grandson Laurence Currie built a water tower, created a new complex of walled gardens and further extended the ornamental planting and woodland.
The property passed to the War Office in 1934, initially for the Senior Wing of the nearby Staff College, Camberley.[6] It was used by the Royal Engineers, from 1971, as a brigade headquarters and then, from 1990, as an officers' mess for units at Gibraltar Barracks, which are located on the opposite side of the A327 Minley Road.
In 2013, as part of the RSME-Public-private partnership project, the Holdfast consortium built a new officers' mess on the Gibraltar Barracks site. The Ministry of Defence part-funded this project from sale of the manor[7] which was sold to an international investor in November 2014.[8] The international investor submitted planning permission to change the use of the manor in to a five star hotel, spa, conference centre and Chinese culture centre.[9]
On the 22 October 2018 a large fire engulfed the water tower, part of the Minley Manor estate.[10] The owners of the estate, Strong Property (UK) Ltd, applied for planning permission to restore the tower in December 2019; however the request was rejected in April 2020 on the basis that the original iron water tank would not have been retained.[11]
On film and in popular culture
Mosquito Squadron (1969) where it plays the part of a French chateau, and uses the manor's 650-yard Wellingtonia tree avenue to good effect/
- Stardust (2001)[12]
- Detective Pikachu (2019) used the training bridge, also in the Manor's grounds, as the setting for the pivotal car crash.[13]
- Enola Holmes (2020)[14]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Minley Manor) |
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1258061: Minley Manor (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ "Minley Manor". Ad locations. http://www.ad-locations.com/film-locations/multifaceted/minley-manor. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1001264: Minley Manor (Register of Historic Parks and Gardens)
- ↑ "F W Meyer". Parks and Gardens. http://www.parksandgardens.org/component/option,com_parksandgardens/task,person/id,928/Itemid,292/. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ↑ "Reginald Hoare". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33897. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ↑ "Number of Land Forces Army Estimates, 1949–50". Hansard. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1949-03-10a.1542.3. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ↑ "Heritage Report 2009". Ministry of Defence. http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/57BD81D4-ED70-4F94-89DA-04CEBDC8DDF8/0/heritage_rpt_200911.pdf. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ↑ "Historic Minley Manor sold to international investor". Insider Media. 18 November 2014. https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/southeast/128075-historic-minley-manor-sold-international-investor. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ↑ "Planning Application 19/01539/PREAPP". Hart Borough Council. https://publicaccess.hart.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=PUDGRWHZ0GB00&activeTab=summary. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ↑ "Crews remain at Minley Manor following huge overnight fire". Get Surrey. https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/hampshire-news/live-updates-fire-minley-manor-15315485. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ↑ "Planning Application 19/02704/LBC". Hart Borough Council. https://publicaccess.hart.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=Q214TDHZG7500&activeTab=summary. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ↑ "Lights Camera Action! MOD provides movie backdrops". Defence News. http://archive.li/YyyU9. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ↑ "Detective Pickachu Locations". British Film Locations. http://www.british-film-locations.com/scene-2ky/Pokemon-Detective-Pikachu-2019. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ↑ "Minley Manor, Enola Holmes (2020)". Screen It. https://www.sceen-it.com/sceen/4452/Enola-Holmes/Minley-Manor. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
