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ENGLEFIELD HOUSE - Englefield, West Berkshire RG7 5EN
Grade 2* listed building - English Heritage Building ID: 397729
Private residence- the gardens are open generally one day a week for a small fee.
House. Circa 1590-1600, altered in the early C18 and again in circa 1823-29
by Thomas Hooper.
The house was painted by Constable in 1832
Largely rebuilt circa 1850-60 by Richard Armstrong
The estate village and rebuilt church were constructed nearby about 1860
Some rebuilding in long gallery after a fire in 1886. The principal addition was the eastern towered entrance hall & port-cochère. Little, if anything, remains of the Englefield's medieval house.
In 1777, the year of his mother's death, Powlett Wrighte married, but he died childless, two years later. He left Englefield to his uncle, Nathaniel Wrighte the Younger, for his lifetime and then, on the latter's death in 1789, to his half-brother Richard Benyon. The estate has remained with the Benyon family name since.
On Benyon De Beauvoir's death, in 1854, Englefield passed to his nephew Richard Fellowes, second son of his sister Emma, on condition that he took the name Benyon.
Upon Richard Fellowes Benyon's death in 1897, Englefield was entailed to heirs male and passed to his nephew James Herbert Fellowes of Kingston Maurward, who also changed his name to Benyon.
Sir Henry Benyon died childless leaving Englefield to his second cousin Admiral Richard Shelley, younger son of John and Marion Shelley. Admiral Shelley took the name Benyon
The current owner is an MP and the great-great-grandson of three-times Tory Prime Minister Lord Salisbury.
In 1972 an old kitchen in the courtyard behind the house was demolished.
The Estate is some 20,000 acres.
The site has been used as a location for several films and tv programmes since 1988.
-avoid confusion with Englefield House, Windsor and Maidenhead. '