Headley Court

Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 3 Feb 2011

The house, in "Jacobethan style", was completed in 1899 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-487900-headley-court-and-attached-former-stable . It's what's inside that is of importance, historically; the building contains much rescued panelling and woodwork from the C17 and C19. From the listed building description: "Walter Cunliffe, later 1st Baron Cunliffe and the Governor of the Bank of England, was given the original farmhouse estate of some 300 acres in 1880 by his father on the condition that he would make a career in banking rather than become a farmer. The family fortune had been made by Walter's grandfather, James Cunliffe, with his development of the North Eastern Railway on which Stevenson's "Rocket" ran. 1940-45, the house was requisitioned as a Canadian Forces Headquarters. After the war it was purchased by the Trustees of the Royal Air Force Pilots and Crews Fund, raised as a memorial by the Chartered Auctioneers and Estate Agents Institute, and leased to the RAD as a rehabilitation centre".

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