England’s Lost Country Houses | Addington Manor, ADDINGTON MANOR | HOUSE AND HERITAGE, Addington, London – Wikipedia, ADDINGTON MANOR | HOUSE AND HERITAGE, 11/24/2015 · The original Addington Manor in Buckinghamshire. Built: 1856-1857. Demolished in 1928 Architect: Philip Charles Hardwick, later house by F.H. Clark Private ownership. The house was built of brick with Bath stone quoins and dressings and heavy lead roofing, in the modified form of the French chateau style, with three lofty towers and fine conservatory.
Welcome to Great Addington Manor. Country Life Magazine (25th August 2011) Records from the time of Domesday show that Great Addington had two Manors. In 1125, one was owned by the de Vere family (which later disappeared). The other was a grand Farmhouse which was owned by the Abbots of Croyland near Peterborough.
The present Addington Manor is the third large house to be built in a village which has averaged only 100 residents over the past 200 years. The orginal manor house was built on a different site in the village nearby. According to the Domesday Book, the area had orginally belonged to Odo, Bishop of Bayeaux and half-brother of William the Conquerer.
Addington Manor 40 Winslow, England, Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury Vale. Brief Description. A small landscape park of about 115 hectares, associated originally with an early 19th century house. Substantial changes to the house were undertaken from 1999, with landscape alterations from 2000.
Manor of the monastery of St. Mary Overie. Godric’s manor, previously to the reign of Edward I. appears to have been divided into two; one of which was given to the Knights Templars by Walter de Morton (fn. 4), and was held of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s manor of Croydon, by an annual rent of thirty-two shillings and one penny.
In the 20th year of king Edward III. he paid aid for this manor, which Robert de Scaccario before held in Addington, of Warine de Montchensie, as of his manor of Swanscombe.
Addington Place, later known as Addington Farm and now called Addington Palace, dominates the village above the church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church and The Cricketers pub. The manor house was situated behind the church and was the residence of the Leigh family.
