Bear Place is an

English country house image:Blenheim - Blenheim Palace - 20210417125239.jpg, 300px, Blenheim Palace - Oxfordshire An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a Townhou ...

. It is a historic

Grade II* In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...

listed building. The house is located northeast of

Wargrave Wargrave () is a historic village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. The village is primarily on the River Thames but also along the confluence of the River Loddon and lies on the border with southern Oxfordshire. The village has many ol ...

Berkshire Berkshire ( ; abbreviated ), officially the Royal County of Berkshire, is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Oxfordshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the north-east, Greater London ...

History

The house was built in 1784–1785 for David Ximenes, Senior, father of David Ximenes and

Morris Ximenes Sir Morris Ximenes (1762–1837), also known as Moses Ximenes, was a captain in the British Army and Berkshire landowner who had converted to Anglicanism from Judaism. Biography Morris was born in London about 1762. He was a member of the London ...

. In the 20th Century the house was owned by the Barons Remnant, beginning with

James Remnant, 1st Baron Remnant James Farquharson Remnant, 1st Baron Remnant, (13 February 1862 – 30 January 1933), known as Sir James Remnant, 1st Baronet, from 1917 to 1928, was a British Conservative politician. Biography Remnant was the son of Frederick William Remnant ...

in around 1930.

Architecture

Bear Place is a three-storey, seven bay, Georgian brick house built with materials from a demolished

Elizabethan The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The Roman symbol of Britannia (a female per ...

house on the site, the moat of which still remains to the southwest of the current house. An unusual architectural feature of the house is that the three bays on either side of the entrance curve out to create bows. It was designed and built by Edward Edgerly of Hurley, and cost .

References

External links

Historic England – Bear Place
Grade II* listed buildings in Berkshire Grade II* listed houses Country houses in Berkshire Scheduled monuments in Berkshire Borough of Wokingham Houses completed in 1785 {{UK-listed-building-stub