Eastleach House is Grade II listed
country house
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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 ...
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Eastleach Martin
Eastleach is a civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It was created in 1935 when the separate parishes of Eastleach Turville and Eastleach Martin were combined as the civil parish of Eastleach. The two villages of the parish†...
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Gloucestershire
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, designed by the architect Walter Cave and completed in 1900.
History
The property in Eastleach Martin was built by the
Bazley family late in the 19th century on the site of an earlier 19th-century farmhouse. It was completed in 1900. Gardner Sebastian Bazley son of
Sir Thomas Bazley built the house for his daughter as a wedding present, using stone from two ruined local houses: Blunsden Abbey (which, in particular, supplied the medieval grotesques which decorate the wings of the west elevation) and Paul's Castle.
The house was originally called Ravens Hill until the name was changed by the present owner.
It was designed by
Walter Cave
Walter Frederick Cave (17 September 1863 – 7 January 1939) was an English architect, active in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who worked firstly in the Arts and Crafts style, and latterly in the Classical Revival. In ad ...
, architect, stylistically the house is Cotswold manor house, Jacobean Revival. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble oolithic
limestone
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ashlar
Ashlar () is a cut and dressed rock (geology), stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape. The term can also refer to a structure built from such stones.
Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, a ...
and a stone slate roof.
The interior is decorated, in the arts and craft style, with simple panelling and boldly projecting, simplified mouldings. The fireplaces, though classically derived, have attenuated column mantelshelf supports rather similar to
Charles Voysey's designs; the central hall fireplace has a carved datestone: 'GSB 1900'. The involved shape of the oak staircase in the central hall forms a half-landing above the main entrance lobby.
The stable and coach house were built for the previous house on this site.
The house is not open to the public.
Gardens
The creation of the current gardens began in 1982 when the house was acquired by Stephanie and David Richards. The gardens cover , and include a walled garden, a garden with a stone rill running through it, the south-facing lawn, and a park. Designed to follow the natural contours of the land, the gardens present the different and contrasting aspects—from the smooth lawns to the avenue, parkland and arboretum—of a traditional
English country garden. The gardens are currently open only upon request.
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Grade II listed buildings in Gloucestershire
Gardens in Gloucestershire