Tyringham Lodges Geograph-4160400-by-Stephen-Richards

Tyringham Hall (/ˈtiːrɪŋəm/) is a

Grade I listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

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

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, England.

Architecture

The house was built on the site of the original manor house by William Praed, with plans by Sir John Soane. Later additions by

Edwin Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens ( ; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memori ...

in 1924 include the Bathing Pavilion, Temple of Music and Rose Garden. 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.National Pipe Organ Register No. 9640

Ownership

During the 1970s, Tyringham Hall was the headquarters of the General Osteopathic Council of the UK(needs edit - this is not true as the GOsC was only set up in 2001 as a statutory regulatory body by The Osteopaths Act, an act of Parliament. Before this the General Council and Register of Osteopaths was the main registering body). In 2001 Tyringham Hall was purchased by real estate heir Anton Bilton (grandson of prefabricated housing tycoon Percy Bilton) and his wife

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-Bilton. Since 2004 they have invested around £10 million in renovating Tyringham Hall. The house was put up for sale in May 2013 with an asking price of £18 million.

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