| Ockham Park | |
|---|---|
 Ockham Park House and stables | |
| Type | Country house |
| Location | Ockham, Surrey |
| Coordinates | 51°17′52″N0°28′24″W / 51.2978°N 0.4734°W /51.2978; -0.4734 |
| Built | c. 1638 |
| Rebuilt | 1728–1729 |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
| Official name | Ockham Park House |
| Designated | 14 June 1967 |
| Reference no. | 1029400 |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
| Official name | Stables to Ockham Park House |
| Designated | 14 June 1967 |
| Reference no. | 1188468 |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
| Official name | Orangery to Ockham Park |
| Designated | 14 June 1967 |
| Reference no. | 1377806 |
  Location of Ockham Park in Surrey | |
Ockham Park is a seventeenth-centuryEnglish country house inOckham, Surrey.
The house is a square two-storey block in red brick with 7 bays on each side with a hipped tiled roof.[1] The nearby two-storey stable block is grade II* listed and now converted into flats.[2]
Builtc.1638 for theWeston family as their newmanor house, it was altered in 1727–9 to designs byNicholas Hawksmoor[3] forLord King, theLord Chancellor, created 1st Baron King in 1725.[4]
In the 1830s it was extended inItalianate style forthe seventh Lord King. His sonWilliam was elevated to an earldom as theEarl of Lovelace and lived here with his wifeAda Lovelace.[5] The house remained in the hands of the family until it was gutted by fire in 1948.[6]
The fire left theorangery, stable block, kitchen wing, and a solitary Italianate tower.[7] The estate of 4,984 acres (2,017 ha) was in part made public once again insofar as it contributed back toOckham and Wisley Commons but otherwise was auctioned on 21 October 1958.[8] The surviving buildings, in part, were restored in the 1970s.[9]
A steelintaglioengraving "Ockham Park, seat of the Right Hon. theEarl of Lovelace" by T. A. Prior after a painting by T. Allom, was used in print for inE.W. Brayley'sA Topographical History of Surrey (1850).
