Newark Park
| Newark Park | |
|---|---|
National Trust | |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
| Official name | Newark Park, Ozleworth |
| Designated | 6 Sep 1954 |
| Reference no. | 1227685 |
  Location of Newark Park in Gloucestershire | |
Newark Park is a
National Trust
since 1946.
History
Newark Park was originally a four-
dissolved Kingswood Abbey,[3] some five miles away. The lodge was three bays wide and of single-pile construction, one room deep. In the basement was a kitchen, there were two reception rooms on the ground floor and a banqueting room on the first.[5] Modest sleeping quarters were provided on the third floor, and the roof was flat so that it could be used as a pleasurable lookout over the surrounding countryside,[2] in which it enjoys a commanding position. It was built at about the same time as nearby Siston Court was being built by Sir Maurice Denys
(d.1563), first cousin of Poyntz's wife Jane Berkeley. Poyntz's original lodge now forms the eastern part of the present structure.
In 1600 the lodge was sold to the Low family of
stairway creating an H-shaped footprint. The Lows owned Newark Park until 1722 when it was sold for £6,010 (equivalent to £1,006,000 today) to the Harding family who after making some minor alterations sold it to James Clutterbuck. The Clutterbucks engaged the architect James Wyatt
to remodel it into a four-square house in 1790. Their improvements included the creation of a formal deer-park to the south of the house and landscaping of the rest of the grounds.
The Clutterbucks left Newark in 1860 and let it out, but even though it was
shipping merchant took the leasehold in 1898, moving from the larger Standish House at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.[6] A member of the Berkeley Hunt, she had five children, plus a house staff of a coachman, cook, housekeeper, and gardener. The King family added servants' quarters on the north side, installed a hot-air heating system and ran hot water to the second floor. The Kings stayed at Newark until 1949 when the last of the line died and the then owner, Mrs Power-Clutterbuck, gave Newark Park and its estates to the National Trust.[2]
Conservation and listing
When the Trust took ownership they did not open Newark Park to the public but instead let it out to tenants who ran it as a
conservation and rehabilitation to both the house and the grounds.[7] It was due to Bob Parson's efforts that the architectural importance of the house was acknowledged and the Grade I listing achieved.[2] Parson's partner, Michael Claydon, moved to Newark Park in 1982 and became actively involved in the ongoing restoration. After Parson's death in 2000, Claydon maintained stewardship of the house and continued restoration works in the landscaped parkland.[8]
Public Access
The property is now open to the public in summer every day.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Historic England. "Newark Park (Grade I) (1227685)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f Claydon, Michael (2002). Newark Park. National Trust.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-905400-13-3.
- ^ Now a side entrance. Nicholas Cooper, English Houses of the Gentry, 1480-1680 (Yale University Press) 1999:112.
- ISBN 978-0-300-12645-7.
- ^ "Stadish House". Stonehouse History Group. Archived from the original on 21 June 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ^ Parsons' restoration was described and illustrated by Richard Haslam, "Newark Park, Gloucestershire", Country Life, CLXXXVIII (1985), pp 943-47.
- ^ "The Restoration of Newark Park - Old House Journal Magazine". Old House Journal Magazine. 24 February 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
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