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Alderley House

Alderley House is a mid-19th century 23,843 square feet (2,215.1 m2) Grade II listed country house designed by Lewis Vulliamy and built for Robert Blagden Hale in the Cotswold village of Alderley, near Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire,[1] England. It was built on the site of The Lower House, Sir Matthew Hale's original 17th-century manor house, and is situated immediately to the southwest of St Kenelm's Church. In 2009 it was sold to an American oil tycoon, who restored the house as a private residence after 70 years serving as the private preparatory school Rose Hill School, Alderley.

Alderley House
Alderley House as designed by Lewis Vulliamy for Robert Blagden Hale, viewed from the garden side looking northeast (March 2008).
Location within Gloucestershire
General information
LocationAlderley, Gloucestershire
Construction started1656
Technical details
Size23,843 square feet
Design and construction
Architect(s)Lewis Vulliamy
DesignationsGrade II

Brief history edit

The first 350 years' history of the property is linked with that of the Hale family,[2] with The Lower House (the original property on the present day Alderley House site) having been constructed by Sir Matthew Hale after he acquired the manor of Alderley in 1656. In the latter part of the 18th century, The Upper House (the original manor house) was rebuilt by another Matthew Hale on the lower slopes of nearby Winner Hill, and this property subsequently became the family's principal seat. In 1859, the position was reversed yet again when Robert Blagden Hale had The Upper House completely demolished and The Lower House substantially demolished, having the latter rebuilt in a more fashionable style to the designs of Lewis Vulliamy.[3] Materials from both of the earlier houses were used in the construction of the new property.

Both The Lower House and its successor, Alderley House, were principally used by the Hale family as a private residence until the early 20th century. However, c. 1925 it started to be used as a crammer and in 1939 it became the home of Rose Hill School when it relocated from Banstead, Surrey following the outbreak of World War II. In the same year the late-10th century will of Æthelgifu was discovered in one of the outbuildings. The property served as the private preparatory school Rose Hill School, Alderley for the next 70 years until the summer of 2009 when the school merged with Querns Westonbirt School, with the resulting Rose Hill Westonbirt School co-locating with Westonbirt School in nearby Tetbury.[4][5][6][7] Relocation of the school rendered the site at Alderley redundant, and it was sold: Alderley House once again returned to functioning as a private residence.

Detailed history edit

Sir Matthew Hale's original 17th-century house edit

 
 
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Kyp's depiction of The Lower House as built by Sir Matthew Hale in 1656–62, a nine-bayed property with gables at either end and dormer windows in between. St Kenelm's church can be seen in the background, immediately adjacent to the property.

The Hales of Alderley were the leading gentry family in the Wotton-under-Edge area of Gloucestershire from the beginning of the 17th century up until the early 20th century.[8] The story of the Hale family houses in that small village of Alderley is unusually complex.

Alderley is situated 2 miles to the south of Wotton-under-Edge, sandwiched between two brooks, the Ozleworth and Kilcott, underneath Winner Hill, and in the 16th and 17th century it was home to a number of woollen mills.[9] The first of the Hale family's houses in the village was West End House, built in 1608 by Robert Hale (c. 1572 – 1614),[10] a barrister at Lincoln's Inn. He was the second son of another Robert Hale who had made his money as a successful cloth merchant in Wotton-under-Edge.[11][12] The younger Robert Hale had acquired land in the village in 1599 through his marriage to Joan Poyntz (1577–1612),[10] the daughter of Matthew Poyntz, a gentleman living in the village at that time.[13][14][15] This house was substantially rebuilt in the 18th century, but continued to be called West End House until the mid-19th century; today it is known as The Grange or Alderley Grange and is a Grade II listed building.[16] It was Robert and Joan's only child,[17] the famous 17th century jurist Sir Matthew Hale (1609–1676), who in 1656 - some 50 years after being born in West End House - acquired the manor of Alderley in exchange for Meysey Hampton with Andrew Barker of Fairford Park,[18] and between then and 1662 had The Lower House built, a new house so called in order to distinguish it from the original manor house (The Upper House) on the other side of the road.[19]

With both of Sir Matthew Hale's parents dying before he had reached the age of 5 he was brought up by Anthony Kingscot,[20] a close relative and devout puritan. He remained firmly religious throughout his life and it is possible that this influenced his choice of location for the house: immediately to the southwest of St Kenelm's Church, whose origins date back to c. 1450.[21] In 1663, the year after the construction of The Lower House was completed, Sir Matthew Hale was granted the right of way from his new manor house into the churchyard.[22] The Lower House was then to remain the Hale family home for the next 100 years.

The Lower House was a substantial property: a nine-bay house with gables at either end and five small dormer windows in between. It was completed in the same year that Parliament introduced the Hearth Tax, and the surviving Hearth Tax Assessment records a house of 18 hearths.

 
An early photo of The Upper House as rebuilt on the lower slopes of Winner Hill by Matthew Hale in 1776–80.

When ill-health forced him to relinquish his position as Lord Chief Justice in 1676, Sir Matthew Hale retired to his seat at Alderley[23] where he died on Christmas Day the same year; he was buried in St Kenelm's churchyard.[24] His first wife Anne Moore, daughter of Sir Henry Moore and granddaughter of Sir Francis Moore, had borne him 10 children. He outlived all but the eldest daughter and the youngest son and, as a result, had taken into his care some of his grandchildren (after the death of their parents). It was to these grandchildren that he left his estate,[25] while he bequeathed West End House to his daughter, Mary;[26] the latter property subsequently passed out of the family when it was sold by one of her descendants in the middle of the 18th century, around which time it was substantially rebuilt.[a]

For a period of more than one hundred years following the death of Sir Matthew Hale, The Lower House remained the family seat. However, between 1776 and 1780, another Matthew Hale (possibly Sir Matthew Hale's great-grandson[25]) decided to rebuild The Upper House on the lower slopes of nearby Winner Hill (to the east of St Kenelm's Church[27]), after which this became the new family home; consequently, The Lower House may have been abandoned for a while.

Lewis Vulliamy's 19th-century redesign for Robert Blagden Hale edit

 
An early photo of The Lower House prior to its substantial demolition in 1859 but after the addition of the 1844 service wing with its distinctive crow-stepped gable. The photo shows the simplified main range: in the 18th century, the farthest 2 bays on the east side were removed, as were both gables and all but the resultant central dormer window.

In 1805, during the period of time when The Upper House was the main Hale family residence, Robert Hale Blagden Hale (1780–1855[28][29]) inherited the properties in Alderley. In the 1830s, his eldest son, Robert Blagden Hale (1807–1883,[30] brother of the Rt. Rev. Matthew Blagden Hale) chose The Lower House when he set up his own independent establishment. At that time, prevailing Victorian attitudes expanded the number of servants that households were expected to contain, whilst simultaneously endeavouring to ensure that male and female servants were kept separate wherever possible. In 1844 he had a new service wing added to the west side of the house: the wing had a distinctive crow-stepped gable to the garden front and is thought to have been designed by Lewis Vulliamy.

Following the death of his father (who had been managing the family estates) on 20 December 1855,[31] Robert Blagden Hale, the then Tory MP for West Gloucestershire, found himself in possession of various properties including Cottles House - another manor house in West Wiltshire, built in 1775-78 for Robert Hale[32] and inherited by his father in 1814 - as well as the two large houses in Alderley, both of which were unfashionable and dilapidated. He progressively withdrew from his official appointments in order to devote himself to "the life of a country gentleman" and in 1857 he stood down as an MP and sold Cottles House.[33] Two years later in 1859 he then had both The Upper House and most of The Lower House demolished in order to build a new manor house in a more fashionable style: of The Lower House, the south end of the service wing built in 1844 and the original Jacobean cellars were retained, but the only surviving remnants of The Upper House are a pair of 18th century Gatepiers in the village and a restored Gothick Folly of 1779 on the summit of Winner Hill.[34][35] Alderley House (as the new house was named) was built on the site of The Lower House to the designs of Lewis Vulliamy,[36] utilising the original cellars and incorporating the retained part of the 1844 service wing as the property's west wing. Materials from the demolition of both The Upper House and The Lower House, including one of the staircases, were used in the construction.

The house is built of ashlar with a Cotswold stone slate roof. It forms three sides of an entrance court, with a shallow, single storey porch in the middle of the central range making a token gesture at an E-plan. The parapet above the entrance porch features a heron's head motif (the Hale family crest[37]) above the initials of Robert Blagden Hale. The main body of the house is a double-pile (a type of compact plan in which rooms face outwards in both directions from a central dividing wall), a style that became standard for country houses from the Restoration onwards. Alderley House was one of the earliest examples of a double-pile plan in Gloucestershire, and its entrance court range consists of 3 full storeys whereas the garden side range has 2 storeys and attics.

Including the new decoration and furnishings and the architect's commission,[38] the total cost of building the house was £16,746 15s 8d. This represents the lower end of the range of country house building costs in the Victorian period; it is an extremely modest sum in comparison with the vast cost of Westonbirt House (also designed by Vulliamy) whose construction for Robert Stayner Holford (Robert Blagden Hale's brother-in-law[39][40]) began after the completion of the redesigned Alderley House.

After Robert Blagden Hale edit

Robert Blagden Hale had married Anne Jane Holford in 1832 and they had five children. Their sons were Robert Hale (1834–1907) who later became a Major-General in the British military and Mathew Holford Hale (1835–1912) who became a colonel. Their daughters were Anne Hale (1833–1912), Georgina Hale (1836–1934) and Theodosia Hale (1838–1922).[41] Of the five children only one (Anne) married and the other four lived at Alderley House for most of their lives. Anne, the eldest daughter, married Thomas Henry Sherwood in 1859.

When Robert Blagden Hale died in 1883 the eldest son Major-General Robert Hale inherited Alderley House and the two unmarried sisters Georgina and Theodosia, lived with him. These living arrangements are mentioned by the artist A.S. Hartrick in his memoirs.[42] When Major –General Robert Hale died in 1907 his younger brother Mathew inherited Alderley House. Mathew died in January 1912 and Anne Sherwood, his sister, then inherited. According to the terms of the will of their father Robert Blagden Hale she legally added the name Hale to her surname so that she became Anne Sherwood-Hale in August 1912.[43] Unfortunately she died the following month in September 1912.[44] Her eldest son Thomas Edward Sherwood-Hale then inherited Alderley House.

Thomas Edward Sherwood-Hale JP MBE (1861–1945)[45][46] lived much of his life in New Zealand. After World War I, he moved into the house for a few years, but after that he resided at the nearby Mount House.[47] which was also owned by the Hale family. In about 1925 Alderley House was let to a Major Lionel Wynne-Wilson who ran it as a crammer. At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the house was again empty and Rose Hill School was evacuated to it from Banstead in Surrey. It was in the same year that the late 10th century will of Æthelgifu (see History of Hertfordshire) was discovered by James Fairhurst among material in one of the outbuildings.[48][49] This document formed part of the literary effects of Lord John Selden (1584–1654), of whose estate Sir Matthew Hale was both one of the executors[50] and one of the beneficiaries,[51][52] but it is unclear whether or not its discovery is a serendipitous consequence of the school moving into the property. The school remained for the duration of the war and when Thomas Sherwood-Hale died in 1945, his son Robert Goodenough Sherwood-Hale inherited the house. Alderley House was subsequently made the permanent home for Rose Hill School, Alderley, with the school trustees purchasing the property freehold in 1950.

In 2009, Rose Hill School, Alderley merged with Querns Westonbirt School to form Rose Hill Westonbirt School. The new school co-located with Westonbirt School in the grounds of Westonbirt House in nearby Tetbury, rendering the property at Alderley surplus to requirements. A change of use for the property was approved by Stroud District Council[53] and it was subsequently marketed as a private residence for c.£3m at the end of 2009.[54] After purchasing the house, the new owners restored the house back to its original state in 1860.[55] On 25 October 2010, the Alderley House Bottling Company LLP was established [56][57] following the discovery of a natural spring beneath one of the former classrooms; bottled at source, this water is the only Cotswold-drawn bottled natural mineral water on the market and is sold under the name Alderley Cotswold Natural Spring Water.[58]

Historical timeline edit

1599 Land at Alderley acquired by Robert Hale by virtue of his marriage to Joan Poyntz.
1608 West End House (now known as The Grange, or Alderley Grange) built for Robert Hale.
1656 The manor of Alderley acquired by Sir Matthew Hale.
1662 Construction of The Lower House completed for Sir Matthew Hale.
1663 Right of way from The Lower House into the churchyard of St Kenelm's Church granted to Sir Matthew Hale.
1676 Death of Sir Matthew Hale.
1776 - 1780 The Upper House rebuilt on the lower slopes of nearby Winner Hill by another Matthew Hale, becoming the new family home; The Lower House may have been abandoned.
1805 Properties at Alderley inherited by Robert Hale Blagden Hale.
(circa) 1835 The Lower House chosen by Robert Blagden Hale (son of Robert Hale Blagden Hale) as his establishment.
1844 Service wing added to west side of The Lower House.
1859 Demolition of both The Upper House and most of The Lower House (cellars and 1844 service wing retained), construction of current Alderley House on the site of The Lower House started.
1863 Construction of current Alderley House completed.
1883 Death of Robert Blagden Hale; ownership of Alderley House passed to his eldest son Major-General Robert Hale
1907 Death of Major-General Robert Hale; ownership of Alderley House passed to his younger brother Colonel Mathew Hale
1912 Death of Colonel Mathew Hale in January 1912 and his sister Anne Sherwood-Hale inherits Alderley House
1912 Death of Anne Sherwood-Hale in September 1912 and her son Thomas Edward Sherwood-Hale inherits Alderley House
(circa) 1925 Alderley House let to Major Lionel Wynne-Wilson for use as a crammer.
1939 Rose Hill School evacuated to the then empty Alderley House from Banstead, Surrey; the will of Æthelgifu discovered in one of the outbuildings.
1950 Freehold of Alderley House purchased by trustees of Rose Hill School.
2009 Rose Hill Westonbirt School formed by the merger of Rose Hill School, Alderley and Querns Westonbirt School and co-located with Westonbirt School in nearby Tetbury. Change of use for Alderley property approved by Stroud District Council and Alderley House sold for use as a private residence. Restoration of the house commissioned by the new owners.

Miscellany edit

Vulliamy's original plans for the redesign were the addition of a range of rooms on the north side of the house, but for some reason this scheme was abandoned and the more radical reconstruction plan adopted.

The portrait of Sir Matthew Hale which hangs in Alderley House is a copy or replica: the original hangs in the Guildhall[59] and was placed there by the thankful citizens of London after Hale offered his services in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London.[60]

In September 2009 the property was used as one of the filming locations for a Season 24 episode of BBC1's hospital drama Casualty[61][62] that aired in early 2010.

Sale edit

In 2017, Alderley House sold for in excess of £7 million.[63][64]

Notes edit

  1. ^ In Nick Kingsley's series The Country Houses of Gloucestershire, he makes 3 references to West End House (now Alderley Grange) being bequeathed by Robert Hale to his daughter and it then passing out of the Hale family in the subsequent generation: Volume I (2nd ed., 2001), p.38; Volume II (1st ed., 1992) pp.50, 256. However, (a) Robert Hale did not have a daughter (Sir Matthew Hale - his son - was an only child), and (b) in Sir Matthew Hale's Will he leaves instructions that his father's house should be left to his daughter (ie Robert Hale's granddaughter). It would therefore appear that Mr Kingsley is incorrect in this regard.

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Further reading edit

  • Kingsley, Nicholas (2001), The Country Houses of Gloucestershire, vol. I (2nd ed.), pp. 10, 38–39
  • Kingsley, Nicholas (1992), The Country Houses of Gloucestershire, vol. II (1st ed.), pp. 50, 256
  • Kingsley, Nicholas; Hill, Michael (2001), The Country Houses of Gloucestershire, vol. III (1st ed.), pp. 8, 43, 56–58

External links edit

  • Maps of the property: Google Maps Satellite Image, Bing Maps Bird's-eye View,
  • Aerial photographs (by H A Wingham, dated 1951–63) of and , English Heritage Archive

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Alderley House is a mid 19th century 23 843 square feet 2 215 1 m2 Grade II listed country house designed by Lewis Vulliamy and built for Robert Blagden Hale in the Cotswold village of Alderley near Wotton under Edge in Gloucestershire 1 England It was built on the site of The Lower House Sir Matthew Hale s original 17th century manor house and is situated immediately to the southwest of St Kenelm s Church In 2009 it was sold to an American oil tycoon who restored the house as a private residence after 70 years serving as the private preparatory school Rose Hill School Alderley Alderley HouseAlderley House as designed by Lewis Vulliamy for Robert Blagden Hale viewed from the garden side looking northeast March 2008 Location within GloucestershireGeneral informationLocationAlderley GloucestershireConstruction started1656Technical detailsSize23 843 square feetDesign and constructionArchitect s Lewis VulliamyDesignationsGrade II Contents 1 Brief history 2 Detailed history 2 1 Sir Matthew Hale s original 17th century house 2 2 Lewis Vulliamy s 19th century redesign for Robert Blagden Hale 2 3 After Robert Blagden Hale 3 Historical timeline 4 Miscellany 5 Sale 6 Notes 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksBrief history editThe first 350 years history of the property is linked with that of the Hale family 2 with The Lower House the original property on the present day Alderley House site having been constructed by Sir Matthew Hale after he acquired the manor of Alderley in 1656 In the latter part of the 18th century The Upper House the original manor house was rebuilt by another Matthew Hale on the lower slopes of nearby Winner Hill and this property subsequently became the family s principal seat In 1859 the position was reversed yet again when Robert Blagden Hale had The Upper House completely demolished and The Lower House substantially demolished having the latter rebuilt in a more fashionable style to the designs of Lewis Vulliamy 3 Materials from both of the earlier houses were used in the construction of the new property Both The Lower House and its successor Alderley House were principally used by the Hale family as a private residence until the early 20th century However c 1925 it started to be used as a crammer and in 1939 it became the home of Rose Hill School when it relocated from Banstead Surrey following the outbreak of World War II In the same year the late 10th century will of AEthelgifu was discovered in one of the outbuildings The property served as the private preparatory school Rose Hill School Alderley for the next 70 years until the summer of 2009 when the school merged with Querns Westonbirt School with the resulting Rose Hill Westonbirt School co locating with Westonbirt School in nearby Tetbury 4 5 6 7 Relocation of the school rendered the site at Alderley redundant and it was sold Alderley House once again returned to functioning as a private residence Detailed history editSir Matthew Hale s original 17th century house edit nbsp nbsp Alderley HouseAlderley House is in Gloucestershire EnglandShow map of Gloucestershire nbsp nbsp Alderley HouseAlderley House England Show map of England nbsp nbsp Alderley HouseAlderley House the United Kingdom Show map of the United Kingdom nbsp nbsp Alderley HouseAlderley House Europe Show map of Europe nbsp Kyp s depiction of The Lower House as built by Sir Matthew Hale in 1656 62 a nine bayed property with gables at either end and dormer windows in between St Kenelm s church can be seen in the background immediately adjacent to the property The Hales of Alderley were the leading gentry family in the Wotton under Edge area of Gloucestershire from the beginning of the 17th century up until the early 20th century 8 The story of the Hale family houses in that small village of Alderley is unusually complex Alderley is situated 2 miles to the south of Wotton under Edge sandwiched between two brooks the Ozleworth and Kilcott underneath Winner Hill and in the 16th and 17th century it was home to a number of woollen mills 9 The first of the Hale family s houses in the village was West End House built in 1608 by Robert Hale c 1572 1614 10 a barrister at Lincoln s Inn He was the second son of another Robert Hale who had made his money as a successful cloth merchant in Wotton under Edge 11 12 The younger Robert Hale had acquired land in the village in 1599 through his marriage to Joan Poyntz 1577 1612 10 the daughter of Matthew Poyntz a gentleman living in the village at that time 13 14 15 This house was substantially rebuilt in the 18th century but continued to be called West End House until the mid 19th century today it is known as The Grange or Alderley Grange and is a Grade II listed building 16 It was Robert and Joan s only child 17 the famous 17th century jurist Sir Matthew Hale 1609 1676 who in 1656 some 50 years after being born in West End House acquired the manor of Alderley in exchange for Meysey Hampton with Andrew Barker of Fairford Park 18 and between then and 1662 had The Lower House built a new house so called in order to distinguish it from the original manor house The Upper House on the other side of the road 19 With both of Sir Matthew Hale s parents dying before he had reached the age of 5 he was brought up by Anthony Kingscot 20 a close relative and devout puritan He remained firmly religious throughout his life and it is possible that this influenced his choice of location for the house immediately to the southwest of St Kenelm s Church whose origins date back to c 1450 21 In 1663 the year after the construction of The Lower House was completed Sir Matthew Hale was granted the right of way from his new manor house into the churchyard 22 The Lower House was then to remain the Hale family home for the next 100 years The Lower House was a substantial property a nine bay house with gables at either end and five small dormer windows in between It was completed in the same year that Parliament introduced the Hearth Tax and the surviving Hearth Tax Assessment records a house of 18 hearths nbsp An early photo of The Upper House as rebuilt on the lower slopes of Winner Hill by Matthew Hale in 1776 80 When ill health forced him to relinquish his position as Lord Chief Justice in 1676 Sir Matthew Hale retired to his seat at Alderley 23 where he died on Christmas Day the same year he was buried in St Kenelm s churchyard 24 His first wife Anne Moore daughter of Sir Henry Moore and granddaughter of Sir Francis Moore had borne him 10 children He outlived all but the eldest daughter and the youngest son and as a result had taken into his care some of his grandchildren after the death of their parents It was to these grandchildren that he left his estate 25 while he bequeathed West End House to his daughter Mary 26 the latter property subsequently passed out of the family when it was sold by one of her descendants in the middle of the 18th century around which time it was substantially rebuilt a For a period of more than one hundred years following the death of Sir Matthew Hale The Lower House remained the family seat However between 1776 and 1780 another Matthew Hale possibly Sir Matthew Hale s great grandson 25 decided to rebuild The Upper House on the lower slopes of nearby Winner Hill to the east of St Kenelm s Church 27 after which this became the new family home consequently The Lower House may have been abandoned for a while Lewis Vulliamy s 19th century redesign for Robert Blagden Hale edit nbsp An early photo of The Lower House prior to its substantial demolition in 1859 but after the addition of the 1844 service wing with its distinctive crow stepped gable The photo shows the simplified main range in the 18th century the farthest 2 bays on the east side were removed as were both gables and all but the resultant central dormer window In 1805 during the period of time when The Upper House was the main Hale family residence Robert Hale Blagden Hale 1780 1855 28 29 inherited the properties in Alderley In the 1830s his eldest son Robert Blagden Hale 1807 1883 30 brother of the Rt Rev Matthew Blagden Hale chose The Lower House when he set up his own independent establishment At that time prevailing Victorian attitudes expanded the number of servants that households were expected to contain whilst simultaneously endeavouring to ensure that male and female servants were kept separate wherever possible In 1844 he had a new service wing added to the west side of the house the wing had a distinctive crow stepped gable to the garden front and is thought to have been designed by Lewis Vulliamy Following the death of his father who had been managing the family estates on 20 December 1855 31 Robert Blagden Hale the then Tory MP for West Gloucestershire found himself in possession of various properties including Cottles House another manor house in West Wiltshire built in 1775 78 for Robert Hale 32 and inherited by his father in 1814 as well as the two large houses in Alderley both of which were unfashionable and dilapidated He progressively withdrew from his official appointments in order to devote himself to the life of a country gentleman and in 1857 he stood down as an MP and sold Cottles House 33 Two years later in 1859 he then had both The Upper House and most of The Lower House demolished in order to build a new manor house in a more fashionable style of The Lower House the south end of the service wing built in 1844 and the original Jacobean cellars were retained but the only surviving remnants of The Upper House are a pair of 18th century Gatepiers in the village and a restored Gothick Folly of 1779 on the summit of Winner Hill 34 35 Alderley House as the new house was named was built on the site of The Lower House to the designs of Lewis Vulliamy 36 utilising the original cellars and incorporating the retained part of the 1844 service wing as the property s west wing Materials from the demolition of both The Upper House and The Lower House including one of the staircases were used in the construction The house is built of ashlar with a Cotswold stone slate roof It forms three sides of an entrance court with a shallow single storey porch in the middle of the central range making a token gesture at an E plan The parapet above the entrance porch features a heron s head motif the Hale family crest 37 above the initials of Robert Blagden Hale The main body of the house is a double pile a type of compact plan in which rooms face outwards in both directions from a central dividing wall a style that became standard for country houses from the Restoration onwards Alderley House was one of the earliest examples of a double pile plan in Gloucestershire and its entrance court range consists of 3 full storeys whereas the garden side range has 2 storeys and attics Including the new decoration and furnishings and the architect s commission 38 the total cost of building the house was 16 746 15s 8d This represents the lower end of the range of country house building costs in the Victorian period it is an extremely modest sum in comparison with the vast cost of Westonbirt House also designed by Vulliamy whose construction for Robert Stayner Holford Robert Blagden Hale s brother in law 39 40 began after the completion of the redesigned Alderley House After Robert Blagden Hale edit Robert Blagden Hale had married Anne Jane Holford in 1832 and they had five children Their sons were Robert Hale 1834 1907 who later became a Major General in the British military and Mathew Holford Hale 1835 1912 who became a colonel Their daughters were Anne Hale 1833 1912 Georgina Hale 1836 1934 and Theodosia Hale 1838 1922 41 Of the five children only one Anne married and the other four lived at Alderley House for most of their lives Anne the eldest daughter married Thomas Henry Sherwood in 1859 When Robert Blagden Hale died in 1883 the eldest son Major General Robert Hale inherited Alderley House and the two unmarried sisters Georgina and Theodosia lived with him These living arrangements are mentioned by the artist A S Hartrick in his memoirs 42 When Major General Robert Hale died in 1907 his younger brother Mathew inherited Alderley House Mathew died in January 1912 and Anne Sherwood his sister then inherited According to the terms of the will of their father Robert Blagden Hale she legally added the name Hale to her surname so that she became Anne Sherwood Hale in August 1912 43 Unfortunately she died the following month in September 1912 44 Her eldest son Thomas Edward Sherwood Hale then inherited Alderley House Thomas Edward Sherwood Hale JP MBE 1861 1945 45 46 lived much of his life in New Zealand After World War I he moved into the house for a few years but after that he resided at the nearby Mount House 47 which was also owned by the Hale family In about 1925 Alderley House was let to a Major Lionel Wynne Wilson who ran it as a crammer At the outbreak of World War II in 1939 the house was again empty and Rose Hill School was evacuated to it from Banstead in Surrey It was in the same year that the late 10th century will of AEthelgifu see History of Hertfordshire was discovered by James Fairhurst among material in one of the outbuildings 48 49 This document formed part of the literary effects of Lord John Selden 1584 1654 of whose estate Sir Matthew Hale was both one of the executors 50 and one of the beneficiaries 51 52 but it is unclear whether or not its discovery is a serendipitous consequence of the school moving into the property The school remained for the duration of the war and when Thomas Sherwood Hale died in 1945 his son Robert Goodenough Sherwood Hale inherited the house Alderley House was subsequently made the permanent home for Rose Hill School Alderley with the school trustees purchasing the property freehold in 1950 In 2009 Rose Hill School Alderley merged with Querns Westonbirt School to form Rose Hill Westonbirt School The new school co located with Westonbirt School in the grounds of Westonbirt House in nearby Tetbury rendering the property at Alderley surplus to requirements A change of use for the property was approved by Stroud District Council 53 and it was subsequently marketed as a private residence for c 3m at the end of 2009 54 After purchasing the house the new owners restored the house back to its original state in 1860 55 On 25 October 2010 the Alderley House Bottling Company LLP was established 56 57 following the discovery of a natural spring beneath one of the former classrooms bottled at source this water is the only Cotswold drawn bottled natural mineral water on the market and is sold under the name Alderley Cotswold Natural Spring Water 58 Historical timeline edit1599 Land at Alderley acquired by Robert Hale by virtue of his marriage to Joan Poyntz 1608 West End House now known as The Grange or Alderley Grange built for Robert Hale 1656 The manor of Alderley acquired by Sir Matthew Hale 1662 Construction of The Lower House completed for Sir Matthew Hale 1663 Right of way from The Lower House into the churchyard of St Kenelm s Church granted to Sir Matthew Hale 1676 Death of Sir Matthew Hale 1776 1780 The Upper House rebuilt on the lower slopes of nearby Winner Hill by another Matthew Hale becoming the new family home The Lower House may have been abandoned 1805 Properties at Alderley inherited by Robert Hale Blagden Hale circa 1835 The Lower House chosen by Robert Blagden Hale son of Robert Hale Blagden Hale as his establishment 1844 Service wing added to west side of The Lower House 1859 Demolition of both The Upper House and most of The Lower House cellars and 1844 service wing retained construction of current Alderley House on the site of The Lower House started 1863 Construction of current Alderley House completed 1883 Death of Robert Blagden Hale ownership of Alderley House passed to his eldest son Major General Robert Hale1907 Death of Major General Robert Hale ownership of Alderley House passed to his younger brother Colonel Mathew Hale1912 Death of Colonel Mathew Hale in January 1912 and his sister Anne Sherwood Hale inherits Alderley House1912 Death of Anne Sherwood Hale in September 1912 and her son Thomas Edward Sherwood Hale inherits Alderley House circa 1925 Alderley House let to Major Lionel Wynne Wilson for use as a crammer 1939 Rose Hill School evacuated to the then empty Alderley House from Banstead Surrey the will of AEthelgifu discovered in one of the outbuildings 1950 Freehold of Alderley House purchased by trustees of Rose Hill School 2009 Rose Hill Westonbirt School formed by the merger of Rose Hill School Alderley and Querns Westonbirt School and co located with Westonbirt School in nearby Tetbury Change of use for Alderley property approved by Stroud District Council and Alderley House sold for use as a private residence Restoration of the house commissioned by the new owners Miscellany editVulliamy s original plans for the redesign were the addition of a range of rooms on the north side of the house but for some reason this scheme was abandoned and the more radical reconstruction plan adopted The portrait of Sir Matthew Hale which hangs in Alderley House is a copy or replica the original hangs in the Guildhall 59 and was placed there by the thankful citizens of London after Hale offered his services in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London 60 In September 2009 the property was used as one of the filming locations for a Season 24 episode of BBC1 s hospital drama Casualty 61 62 that aired in early 2010 Sale editIn 2017 Alderley House sold for in excess of 7 million 63 64 Notes edit In Nick Kingsley s series The Country Houses of Gloucestershire he makes 3 references to West End House now Alderley Grange being bequeathed by Robert Hale to his daughter and it then passing out of the Hale family in the subsequent generation Volume I 2nd ed 2001 p 38 Volume II 1st ed 1992 pp 50 256 However a Robert Hale did not have a daughter Sir Matthew Hale 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Nicholas Hill Michael 2001 The Country Houses of Gloucestershire vol III 1st ed pp 8 43 56 58External links editMaps of the property Google Maps Satellite Image Bing Maps Bird s eye View O S Map Aerial photographs by H A Wingham dated 1951 63 of Alderley House and Rose Hill School English Heritage Archive Hunter Page Planning s Change of Use application document for Rose Hill School51 36 55 N 2 20 11 W 51 6154 N 2 33635 W 51 6154 2 33635 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Alderley House amp oldid 1175331920, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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