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Nether Lypiatt Manor is a compact, neo-Classicalmanor house in the mainly rural parish ofThrupp, nearStroud inGloucestershire, England. It was formerly thecountry home ofPrince andPrincess Michael of Kent and is a Grade Ilisted building.[1]
Built in the early 1700s by an unknown architect for JudgeCharles Coxe, with one wing added in 1931 byMorley Horder, the small house forms a perfect square of 46 feet (14 m) on each side, with sash windows, tall chimneys, hipped roofs and gate piers and railings. The attic storey with dormers was removed in 1844, but replaced by Horderc. 1923. It has been praised by architectural historianMark Girouard as perfectly exemplifying the early 18th-century formal house in miniature. The house, in 35 acres (14 ha) of grounds, has four reception rooms, eight bedrooms, and four bathrooms. It comprises four floors, including a tall basement and an attic floor. Inside, much of the early 18th-century panelling survives, as do original stone fireplaces. A fine staircase runs from basement to attic.
There is a possibility that Nether Lypiatt Manor was the influence for theGovernor's Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia.[citation needed]
The garden designerRosemary Verey worked on the gardens of Nether Lypiatt for Prince and Princess Michael.[2] The grounds have recently been re-developed with a series of new gardens, including a refurbished traditional flower garden in keeping with the original arts and crafts backbone of vistas and hedges.
On the death of Thomas Freame in 1689, his estate at Nether Lypiatt was divided between his two co-heiresses. One, Anne Chamberlayne, obtained the previous house, which stood near to the present house. Her daughter Catherine married judgeCharles Coxe (1656–1728), MP forCirencester and laterGloucester, and circuit judge in Wales. They inherited the house in 1699 and built the present house in the early 1700s. Their son John inherited the house in 1728 after which it passed down in his family until 1914 (though, from 1884, occupied by tenants), when it was bought by Arthur Stanton. He sold it to Mr Corbett Woodall, who commissioned architect Peter Morley Horder to recondition the house, installing bathrooms and planting the avenue oflime trees to the south.[citation needed]
In 1923, it was bought by Gordon Woodhouse (heir to aMarsala fortune) and his wife, the harpsichordistViolet Gordon Woodhouse,[citation needed] who lived in amenage a cinq.[3]They added the north-west pavilion and improved the interior. After Gordon's death in 1951, the property passed to Captain John Gwynne, a nephew of Violet.[4] In 1956–57, Frederick Nettlefold, with Jeremy Benson as his architect, lifted and completely rebuilt the roof in strict accordance with the original plan, after an 1848 inaccurate re-roof.
In 1980, it was bought by Prince and Princess Michael.[citation needed]Other members of theBritish royal family also lived near Prince and Princess Michael at Nether Lypiatt.Anne, Princess Royal lived at nearbyGatcombe Park, andCharles, Prince of Wales lived atHighgrove House nearTetbury.[5]
In 2005, Nether Lypiatt Manor was put up for sale. The agent was originally asking for offers in excess of £6 million, but by February 2006 this had been lowered to £5.5 million. According toThe Sunday Times, it was purchased by the businessman and Labour life peerLord Drayson for £5.75 million.[6] The property was put up for sale again in 2023, launching inCountry Life on 31 May at a price of £11 million.[7][8]
For a review of Nether Lypiatt Manor (with 27 photographs) seeChristopher Hussey inCountry Life, 19 and 26 May 1934, and for Morley Horder's restorations in particular, see R. Randal Phillips in idem, 24 March and 7 April 1923; see alsoOsbert Sitwell,Noble Essences or Courteous Revelations and Craftsmen (London 1950), pp. 255–256, and Sachervell Sitwell, British Architects and Craftsmen (4th edn. 1948), p. 40. For a history of Nether Lypiatt, see Mary A Rudd, Historical Records of Bisley with Lypiatt (Gloucester, 1937), wherein, however, the date of the building is wrongly taken as 1717." Quotation from The Nettlefolds, A Genealogical Account of The Family of Nettlefold by C. Anthony Crofton Anno Domini MDCCCClxii. All books mentioned in the quotation can be found in The British Library.
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