Charlton Park House
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Charlton Park House
Image: © Vieve Forward Taken: 22 Apr 2012
A Grade I listed building. A house at Charlton was built for Henry Knyvett some time after 1563, when his wife inherited the manor. Charlton manor passed to Thomas Howard, Lord Howard, Earl of Suffolk, through his wife, Knyvett’s daughter Catherine. The manor and earldoms descended in the direct male line to Charles (the bomb disposal expert, who was killed in 1941), and Michael Howard, Earls of Suffolk and of Berkshire. From 1959 Lord Suffolk sold parts of the estate, and the house was divided into flats in the late 1970s. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=116140 The house was enlarged in 1772-6 by Matthew Brettingham the younger, but not completed until early in the 20th century. It is a Jacobean style house, with corner turrets with leaded onion domes. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-315644-charlton-park-house-charlton
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Image Location
Latitude
51.601349
Longitude
-2.07041