Grittleton House
Grittleton House is a country house in the village of Grittleton, Wiltshire, England, about 5 1⁄2 miles (9 km) northwest of the town of Chippenham. The house was built between 1832 and 1856 for Joseph Neeld, to designs of James Thomson. In 1988 it was designated as a Grade II* listed building.
On this site, across the road from St Mary's Church, stood a three-bay Jacobean manor house, dating from 1660. The estate was bought in 1828 by Joseph Neeld, a London lawyer who had inherited a substantial sum, and Grittleton became his country seat.
In the first phase of work for Neeld, c. 1832-40 to designs of James Thomson, the earlier house was partly refaced and added to. A major extension of 1852-6 saw the demolition of the old house. Designs for this phase were at first again by Thomson, who was replaced by Henry Clutton in 1853; however, Thomson appears to have completed the house in 1854-6.Pevsner wrote of the house: "It is really a monstrosity. It has Jacobean gables and a Jacobean central tower, but windows of a long, thin, Veneto-Byzantine variery, and odd oriels in unexpected places".
After Joseph Neeld's death in 1856 the estate was inherited by his brother John.
Thomson designed an extensive complex of stables, coach houses and related facilities, built to the south of the house c. 1835. Nearby improvements to the estate included the destruction of the hamlet of Upper Foscote, except for one 17th-century house.
Thomson also designed Fosse Lodge, in the north of the estate on the Fosse Way, with a tall, octagonal tower (1835); and Malmesbury Lodge in Grittleton village (c. 1840), its octagonal spirelet with bell-stage noted as "remarkable" in the building's National Heritage List entry. Stable Lodge, at the entrance to the stables on the Yatton Keynell road, and Woodman's Lodge, in the southeast, are of similar date. West Lodge, at the principal western entrance to Grittleton House, was built in 1854-5 to designs by Clutton, based on the plan of Malmesbury Lodge.
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