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Faringdon House

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Faringdon House
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Rear of Faringdon House
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Bridge over Lake
The Berners Estate Company was set up in 1922 by Lord Berners to manage his manorial estate, approximating to the monastic lands which belonged to medieval Beaulieu Abbey, on the slope northwards down to the Thames.
During his life it yielded about c7,000 a year; it now belongs to his heir, Robert Heber-Percy's,  only granddaughter, who has the title of Lord of the Manor of Faringdon .

The present house was begun about 1780, near the site, north of All Saints' Church, of the old house which had been heavily damaged during the Civil War.
The town gate, with good piers of c.1700, leads to the south entrance front of five bays.
Even in evening sunshine, it is a dull stuccoed block, raised on a terrace in a flanking of trees at the end of a long stretch of mown grass.
It has two storeys and five bays; over the attic storey, a hipped roof interrupted by the pediment. The interior, not open to the public, has a "fine" entrance hall and some "elegant" stucco work. Part has been converted into flats. 

The orangery and the park (with lake, summer house and monolithic Egyptian statue) are very occasionally opened to the public.
© Gerald Taylor 2000.
Owners/occupants of Faringdon House

 ????John Yate
1550 Toby Pleydell
1590 Sir Henry Unton
1595 Dorothy Unton (wife of Sir Henry)
1597 John Wentworth ( married to Cecily Unton)
1622 Sir Robert Pye
1662 Robert Pye (son of Sir Robert)
1701 Edmund Pye (son of Robert)
1705 Henry Pye (son of Edmund)
1740 Henry Pye (son of Henry)
1766 Henry James Pye (son of Henry)

1770-85  FARINGDON HOUSE REBUILT
1806 William Hallett. 
1847 Daniel Bennett
1910 Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson , 14th Baron Lord Berners
1950 Robert Heber-Percy
1987 Sofka Zinovieff  (House let to tenants)
​2018 Charles Crossley-Cooke

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-249467-faringdon-house-great-faringdon-oxfordsh
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Destroyed during the Civil War 1642-1646
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Egyptian statue
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Lake at Faringdon House
Manor of Great Faringdon was granted to:
1174 farmer Adam de Catmore
1179 - 1190 William the Porter
1547 Thomas Lord Seymour
1554 Sir Francis Englefield
1554 John Yate
1555 Toby Pleydell.
1583 John Pleydell (son of Toby)

Extracted from http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62756
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