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Basing Park - the house seen here was demolished in 1964. There is a smaller more recent house now on site.
There was a walled kitchen garden of one acre to the West of the house but the gales of 1987 demolished two of the walls and the reconstructed garden is smaller.
There is a record of a house in 1567. This was demolished and a further house built about 1710. (English Heritage in the Garden list entry, in error describe this as "demolished C17" which is not possible! although the house possibly of 1531 would probably have been demolished then. The house of 1710 is probably the one demolished in 1964. There is need of a formal documented history of the site.
In 1863, William Nicholson of the firm of J&W Nicholson & Co, gin distillers, bought the estate of Basing Park.
There is an 1833 reference to a 60 ft conservatory attached to the west wing of the house. From the same year reference to a well having a tunnel part way down which led to the stables. A horse was led along this tunnel to a treadmill where it was hitched up to take up the water from the well
Basing House Garden is listed, grade 2, List entry Number: 1000138, under the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953 within the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens by English Heritage - referred to as The grounds and walled garden of a demolished Tudor house (demolished 1740).
Around 1790 a lodge was constructed which became known as Basing House, later extended. (Doubtful history again- was this the house possibly of 1710??).
The garden site was bought by Hampshire County Council 1972-74. '