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and the furnishings. His alterations in 1786-87 included "raising the ceilings of the front rooms, adding a new dining room to the north-east, three reception rooms, the drawing and library rooms and reroofing the house in grey Welsh slate." His alterations turned
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walls around a court, adding a service wing, "a stall for 24 cattle, a farm baliff's house, a brewhouse" and modern plumbing, with a lead pipe water supply. Player also began the garden, planting extensively on both sides of the house and trees, behind, south and north of the house, that included beeches, elms, poplars, ashes and cherries.
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Hadspen estate comprised 717 acres. Hadspen House was "a modern stone-built House of Six rooms on a floor with marble chimney-pieces, stabling for 20 horses, a good garden and extensive woodland." In 1786 and 1786, Henry Hobhouse II continued to expand the house
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Hadspen House is said to have begun as a farmhouse, purchased by the London lawyer
William Player in 1687 on the Hadspen estate, Player "built the forefront of a gentleman's house in Byfleet Close, a barn, two stables and ox house." Player's expansion continued for 10–12 years. It included building
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Major alterations to the rear were made by his heir, the Right
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Hadspen is noted as Hatch-been on John Ward's map around 1650. Yet
Hadspen House and Hadspen are located on maps as early as 1736, as a gentleman's seat on the eastern edge of Castle Cary Manor. By 1822, Hadspen House and Hadspen are shown as a significant landed estate on C. & J. Greenwood's
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Hadspen House, significantly expanding the Hobhouse land ownership in Somersetshire and establishing the Hobhouse family seat. "The Hobhouses were Bristol merchants who had recently established themselves as country gentlemen." Henry Hobhouse I and his brother
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An accurate map of the mannor of Castle Cary, wherein is described the roades, rivers, ponds, footepaths, etc., thereto belonging, by John Ward, teacher of the mathematicks, at
William Sare's house, in Ratcliffe, merchant;" drawn about the year 1650, on
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transformed the walled parabola vegetable garden, planting within and around it a 20th-century Arts and Crafts garden. It opened to visitors in 1970 and appeared in
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of the Garantiana Beds and dates to the Middle Jurassic. The house has been designated by
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In 2013, the property was sold to South Africans, Karen Roos and her billionaire husband
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