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Ockham Park is a Grade II listed English country house in Ockham, Surrey. Built ca 1638 for the Weston family, it was altered in 1727-9 to designs by Nicholas Hawksmoor[1] for Peter, Lord King. In the 1830s it was extended in Italianate style style for the seventh Lord King. The house was gutted by fire in 1948, leaving the orangery, stable block, kitchen wing, and a solitary Italianate tower.[2] The estate of 4984 acres was auctioned 21 October 1958[3] and partly restored in the 1970s.[4]
A steel engraving "Ockham Park, seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of Lovelace" by T.A.Prior after a picture by T. Allom, was published in Brayley, A Topographical History of Surrey, 1850.
Notes
- ^ Laurence Whistler. "Ockham Park, Surrey: Newly discovered designs by Nicholas Hawksmoor", Country Life 29 December 1950:2218-2221; Howard Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 3rd ed. 1995, s.v. "Nicholas Hawksmoor" reports further Hawksmoor drawings for Ockham Park, 1727-29, conserved at Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, in John Harris, Catalogue of Drawings for British Architecture... in American Collections, 1971 112-15 and plates, and at Minet Library, Camberwell, London.
- ^ Ockham
- ^ By Clutton with Knight, Frank and Rutley; sale particulars.
- ^ British Listed Buildings: Ockham Park
Categories:- Country houses in Surrey
- Grade II listed buildings in Surrey
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