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Buckfield House. Sherfield-on-Loddon, Hampshire. Rebuilt 1867, it replaced Sherfield Manor which in turn had replaced the original Tudor mansion, Archer Lodge, that burned down in 1864. It was rebuilt for James B. Taylor who'd made a fortune mining diamonds in South Africa. In 1926, it was purchased by Viscount Maidstone (who the following year ...
North Foreland Lodge was a private boarding school for girls in England, originally established at North Foreland in Kent. Displaced from there by the Second World War , in 1947 it settled at Sherfield Manor in Sherfield on Loddon , Hampshire, until its closure in 2003 shortly after being acquired by another school, Gordonstoun .
In 1947, the house became North Foreland Lodge, an independent girls’ boarding school and the following years saw a number of other wings and additions to the school to provide further teaching and residential facilities. In 2004, Sherfield reopened under the management of GEMS, Global Education Management Systems.
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Fortunately many of the fine attributes of the grounds remain. These include the overall setting of the mansion on its well-proportioned terrace within a recognisable landscape setting; the approach to the house is still made along a sweeping drive through a park, albeit with cricket pitch added, and the rear south view over the fountain lawn towar...
Buckfield Copse, which is designated a Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC's) has been reined-in from too vigorous encroachment on the upper lawn but sadly the long rhododendron-edged walk through the woods to the southern boundary has been lost. The lakes are now fenced in with heavy, tall, park railings and it has not been possible ...
The national significance of this site lies in its listing as a Grade II property. As a group the house, terrace, pond, walled garden and gates make an impressive collection and together with other unlisted features such as the stables, the statuary, the garden terraces and the yew hedging they combine to make a site of considerable historical impo...
Established. 1909. Founder. Mary B. Wolseley-Lewis [2] Closed. 2003. North Foreland Lodge was a private boarding school for girls in England, originally established at North Foreland in Kent. Displaced from there by the Second World War, in 1947 it settled at Sherfield Manor in Sherfield on Loddon, Hampshire, until its closure in 2003 shortly ...
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In 1947 Mitchell sold the mansion, some land and the walled garden to a school, North Foreland Lodge who retained the garden until 1973 (Cunningham 2009). The buyer hoped to be able to develop the garden site but having failed he sold to Mr Loren Butt who recognized the quality of the Palm House and the glasshouse ranges despite the derelict state in which they stood.
