Tyringham Hall (/ˈtiːrɪŋəm/) is a

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stately home, originally designed by Sir John Soane in 1792. It is located in

Tyringham Tyringham (/ˈtiːrɪŋəm/) is a village in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is located about a mile and a half north of Newport Pagnell. The village name is an Old English language word, an ...

near

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, England. The estate is highlighted in

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Architecture

The house was built on the site of the original manor house by

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, with plans by Sir John Soane. The house was bought by American banker Frederick Konig in 1907, who commissioned Ernst von Ihne to remodel the house including the addition of a copper dome to the portico. Later, in 1911, Charles G. F. Rees was brought in to lay out the oval forecourt and Rose Garden. Later additions by

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in 1924 include the Bathing Pavilion, Temple of Music and Pergola. Tyringham Hall stands in Lutyens’ formally laid-out gardens, with a tree-lined drive leading past the deer park to a gravel sweep in front of the house. The façade features stone columns with sphinxes on either side of the entrance porch leading to the reception rooms. The Temple of Music had a Welte-Philharmonic Organ.

Ownership

On Konig's death in 1940, the house was requisitioned to act as a wartime

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. After the war it was purchased by the Australia and New Zealand Bank as a weekend club. In 1967, the house was reopened as the Tyringham Naturopathic Clinic by Sidney Rose-Neil, where patients were treated with

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. In 2001, Tyringham Hall was discovered to have asbestos and temporarily forced to close. It was purchased by real estate heir Anton Bilton (grandson of prefabricated housing tycoon Percy Bilton) and his wife Lisa Barbuscia-Bilton. Since 2004 they have invested around £10 million in renovating Tyringham Hall. A vineyard was established in the grounds of the hall in 2008 where they produce a

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. The house was put up for sale in May 2013 with an asking price of £18 million.

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* {{Coord, 52.11390, -0.75177, region:GB_type:landmark, display=title Country houses in Buckinghamshire John Soane buildings Houses completed in 1792 Grade I listed buildings in Buckinghamshire Grade I listed houses Gardens in Buckinghamshire Works of Edwin Lutyens in England Konig family Tyringham