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Clopton House is a 17th-century country mansion near Stratford upon Avon,
A manor house existing on the site in 1450 was owned by John Clopton, Alderman of the Trinity Guild of Coventry, and was rebuilt in the 16th century. The present house is a 17th-century creation by Sir John Clopton around the core of the 16th-century manor, with 19th-century extensions and improvements.
The south and east wings date from 1665 to 1670 in the Restoration style. The south front is two storied with attics and dormers. It has seven bays, the projecting central three being pedimented. The pediment over the entrance carries the Clopton family crest. The east wing is a similar but unpedimented seven bay range.
The earliest part of the house on the north was substantially rebuilt in the 1840s, with additions including the Grade II listed coachhouse and Clopton Tower, a Grade II listed belvedere in the grounds. The entrance porch bears an inscription ''FHH 1904'', referring to the last resident owner, Francis Hodgson.
''A History of the County of Warwick'' Vol 3 (1945)pp258-66 from British History Online
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Warwickshire
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, now converted into residential apartments. It is a Grade II* listed building
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, Hi ...
.
History
The Manor of Clopton was granted to the eponymous family in the 13th century and in 1492 was owned byHugh Clopton
Sir Hugh Clopton (c. 1440 – 15 September 1496) was a List of Lord Mayors of London, Lord Mayor of London, a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers and a benefactor of his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire.
Origins
Hugh Clop ...
then Lord Mayor of London
The Lord Mayor of London is the Mayors in England, mayor of the City of London, England, and the Leader of the council, leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded Order of precedence, precedence over a ...
. In the late 16th century Joyce Clopton daughter of William Clopton (1538-1592), (a recusant
Recusancy (from ) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation.
The 1558 Recusancy Acts passed in the reign of Elizabeth I, and temporarily repea ...
Catholic), and heiress to the estate, married Sir George Carew (later Baron Carew and Earl of Totnes). They had no issue, and the estate fell to their nephew, Sir John Clopton. Thereafter the manor passed by marriage through the female line to the Partheriche, Boothby and Ingram families; the latter two changed their name to Clopton. In 1605 Ambrose Rookwood, a Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against James VI and I, King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English ...
conspirator, lived in the house.
The Cloptons sold the estate in 1824 to the Meynells, who sold it again in 1870 to George Lloyd of Welcombe House. His nephew Charles Thomas Warde ( High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1846) carried out the significant extensions of the 1840s.
In 1872 the estate was acquired by Sir Arthur Hodgson
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Sir Arthur Hodgson KCMG (29 June 1818 – 24 December 1902) was an Australian squatter and politician.
Early life
Hodgson was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England; the second son of the Rev. Edward Hodgson and his third wi ...
, High Sheriff in 1881. On the death of his son Rev Francis H Hodgson (FHH) in 1930 the estate was broken up.
Architecture
A manor house existing on the site in 1450 was owned by John Clopton, Alderman of the Trinity Guild of Coventry, and was rebuilt in the 16th century. The present house is a 17th-century creation by Sir John Clopton around the core of the 16th-century manor, with 19th-century extensions and improvements.
The south and east wings date from 1665 to 1670 in the Restoration style. The south front is two storied with attics and dormers. It has seven bays, the projecting central three being pedimented. The pediment over the entrance carries the Clopton family crest. The east wing is a similar but unpedimented seven bay range.
The earliest part of the house on the north was substantially rebuilt in the 1840s, with additions including the Grade II listed coachhouse and Clopton Tower, a Grade II listed belvedere in the grounds. The entrance porch bears an inscription ''FHH 1904'', referring to the last resident owner, Francis Hodgson.
References
* Image and architectural description''A History of the County of Warwick'' Vol 3 (1945)pp258-66 from British History Online
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