The Mansion, Berkhamsted

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The Mansion
Hertfordshire
Castle Village, Berkhamsted.jpg
The Mansion, Berkhamsted (on the left)
Location
Grid reference: TL00370873
Location: 51°46’6"N, 0°32’49"W
Town: Berkhamsted
History
Built 1906 - 1908
For: Sir John Evans
by George Hubbard
Country house
Information

The Mansion is a historic property on Castle Hill, now by the northern spread of Berkhamsted. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]

History

The house was designed by George Hubbard and built by H and J Matthews between 1906 and 1908 for Sir John Evans,[1] the archaeologist and geologist who became President of the Geological Society of London.[2] Sir John called the house Britwell.

In 1908, after the death of Sir John Evans, the house was bought by Sir Arthur Cory Wright, a businessman, who renamed it renamed Berkhamsted Hill.[3]

The house was bought by the Deen family in 1919 and by Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper, a businessman, in 1937.[3] After Cooper's death in 1946, the house was acquired by his family chemicals business which itself was bought by the Wellcome Trust in 1959.[3] The house next came into the ownership of the Pitman-Moore Company, a pharmaceuticals business, who had no further use for it after 1991.[3]

Now known as "the Mansion",[1] it became the centre point of a retirement facility known as "Castle Village" in 1999.[4]

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