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Charlton Park, MALMESBURY, SN16 9DG

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 was not completed until early in the 20th century. It is a Jacobean style house, with corner turrets with leaded onion domes. The south front (shown here) has a central 2-storey porch on coupled Tuscan Doric columns and an open round-arched entrance giving on to an open round-arched loggia which extends along the width of the facade from turret to turret. The oriel window over the porch has octagonal leaded glazing. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-315644-charlton-park-house-charlton The house is set in parkland, which has been used recently for the Womad festival. In front of the house's entrance is a private airstrip. The grounds, which are surrounded by a high stone wall, also contain a number of lodges, a stable block, a walled garden, several other houses and cottages, a nursery and a business centre.

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

A view of Charlton Park House taken from the driveway leading from the South Lodges. Charlton Park House is a Grade I listed building, set in extensive parkland. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-315644-charlton-park-house-charlton It is well-known as the venue for the Womad Festival.

The house was originally seat of the Earl of Suffolk, now is apartments. It is Jacobean in origin and partly open to the public one afternoon per week in the summer.

Grade II listed late 18th Century stable block (possibly built in 1772-6 by the younger Matthew Brettingham when he was working on Charlton Park House). Built of Cotswold stone, the stable block is grouped around four sides of a courtyard, with the south-east range (seen here to the right) forming the rear wall of Andover House and the Estate Office. The ranges to the north-west and north-east (the latter seen here on the left) have had their stone tiles replaced with concrete ones. There are round-arched, pedimented entrances to all sides except the south-east (seen here on the right). There is round-arched arcading to the inner courtyard walls, which is blocked on all sides except for the north-west, which has 2-leaf plank doors to the stables within. There is a bell turret on the ridge of south-east wing with clocks on its south-east and north-west faces. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-315646-stables-at-andover-house-charlton

Former water tower situated close to Andover House and the stable block in Charlton Park.