Abbess Grange
| Abbess Grange | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU37283739 |
| Location: | 51°8’4"N, 1°28’7"W |
| History | |
| Built 1901 | |
| For: | George Miles-Bailey by Sir Banister Fletcher |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Converted to a country club |
| Owned by: | John Lewis Partnership |
Abbess Grange is an early 20th-century, neo-Elizabethan house at Leckford in Hampshire, built in 1901 on the site of a former grange of St Mary's Abbey, Winchester.[1]
The house was built for George Miles-Bailey, by designed by Sir Banister Fletcher. It consists of a two-storey main block with attic and a projecting single-storey billiards hall on the left, and is built on a levelled platform cut out of the hillside. The Dutch-gabled right-hand three bays of the main block project forward and have, in the centre, an Ionic porch with pairs of column supporting a heavy entablature. Over the porch is a seven-light mullioned and transom window, and to either side is a three-light Ipswich window. In 1984, the interior was said to be largely unaltered.
The house is now a country club for the John Lewis Partnership, and forms part of their Leckford estate.
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1093184: Leckford Abbess (Grade II listing)
- The Architect, 25 August 1905
- Building News 18 October 1901, p. 519; 20 December 1901, p. 835
- A History of the County of Hampshire - Volume 4 pp 446-449: Parishes: Leckford (Victoria County History)
