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West Horsley Place

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The Trust holds regular guided tours and open days of the house and gardens. The grounds are regularly used for events, concerts, art workshops and filming, and the main house and converted Place Farm Barn are available for occasional hire. In 2021 the Trust hosted their first wedding ceremony.
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When Gascoigne's great aunt Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe died in 2014 at the age of 99, she left him a crumbling 15th-century manor house. After deciding to establish a centre for the performing and visual arts on the site,
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To raise money to restore the somewhat dilapidated 50-room house, Gascoigne arranged for the Duchess's possessions—some found under cobwebs in the closed-up sections of the house—to be auctioned by
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diamond engagement ring selling for £167,000, 14 times its estimate. Gascoigne subsequently transferred ownership of the house and estate to the West Horsley Place Trust.
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When the 99-year-old Duchess died in 2014, it was "accidentally" inherited by her (then) 80-year-old grand-nephew, broadcaster and author
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A topographical history of Surrey, by E.W. Brayley assisted by J. Britton and E.W. Brayley, jun. The geological section by G. Mantell
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The house dates back to the 15th century, and is a timber-framed building. It has 50 rooms. In the 16th century, it was owned by
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in Surrey, England. There are eight further Grade II buildings on the estate, including two mid-19th-century dog kennels.
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in London and Geneva. Originally expected to raise £2.2 million, the auction raised £8.8 million, with her
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took up residence in a purpose-built 700-seat theatre in the grounds, with its inaugural production of Puccini's
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The house, or the additions in the reign of Charles I, is given as a leading example by Sir
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in west London, shows "what a gulf there was between the taste of the Court and that of
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West Horsley Place has a mid-17th century façade applied to its 15th century structure
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led by a group of mostly London-based craftsmen still active in their
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Other productions using West Horsley Place as a location include
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The house was the location for much of the filming of the 2015
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in London). It features prominently the fancy, quasi-classical
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Gascoigne transferred ownership to a charitable trust.
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West Horsley
51°15′57″N 0°26′31″W / 51.265880°N 0.441929°W / 51.265880; -0.441929
OS grid reference
TQ 08800 53011
Listed Building
1188949
West Horsley Place is located in Surrey

Grade I listed
West Horsley
Guildford
John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
Froissart's Chronicles
Earl of Lincoln
Elizabeth I
Robert Dudley
Master of the Horse
running at the ring
John Summerson
Artisan Mannerism
Jacobean architecture
guilds
livery companies
gable ends
Swakeleys House
the City
Kew Palace
Guildford
Henry Currie

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