Newbuildings Place

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Newbuildings Place
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Newbuildings Place is a 17th-century

Artisan Mannerist house near Shipley, West Sussex. The house is a former home of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, who is buried in the grounds of the house. The building is currently owned by John Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton, and is Grade I listed
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History

Road with a small stone barn in the top of the image.
Barn in the grounds of Newbuildings Place

Newbuildings Place was built by Philip Caryll in the 17th century, around 1683. Caryll's family owned the estate for over 100 years.[1] The house was built with numerous priest holes, as the Caryll family were Roman Catholic.[1] It is situated around 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the church in Shipley, West Sussex.[2]

In the 1820s and 1830s,

tapestries and furniture from William Morris, which still survive in the house.[1] Blunt is buried in a tomb in the house's grounds;[6] in his will, he requested to be buried in the house's woods in his travelling carpet rather than in a coffin.[7][8]

Blunt's daughter, who inherited the house, was married to Neville Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton.[9] In 1957, the house was sold to Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth, and after being owned by some of her relatives, it was then owned by John Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton.[3] In 1959, the house became a Grade I listed building.[1] The grounds of the house contain a Grade II listed barn,[10] and a Grade II listed dovecote.[11]

Architecture

Newbuildings Place is built in the

Artisan Mannerist style, with some interior features matching the Jacobean style.[2] The style of the building is unusual for houses in Sussex, whereas it is more common in Kent and Surrey.[2] The house is built of stone, including Horsham Stone, and has two storeys.[1] The kitchen and cellar are original to the house.[1] The façades of the house contain two gables.[3][2] The roof of the building is made of Horsham stone slab.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Historic England. "Newbuildings Place (1180744)". National Heritage List for England.
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  3. ^ a b c d A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2, Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) Including Horsham. Vol. 6. Victoria County History. 1986. pp. 112–117 – via British History Online.
  4. ^ "Horsham, Sussex". Workhouses. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Shipley" (PDF). Horsham District. June 2012. p. 11. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Report On The History Of Crawley Parks" (PDF). Sussex Gardens Trust. March 2013. pp. 17–19. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
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  9. ^ "Sussex Depicted" (PDF). Sussex Record Society. 2001. p. 259. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  10. ^ Historic England. "Barn to South East of Newbuildings Place (1026929)". National Heritage List for England.
  11. ^ Historic England. "Dovecot to South of Newbuildings Place (1354236)". National Heritage List for England.
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