Hammerwood Park
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| Former names | Hammerwood Lodge, Hammerwood House |
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| Status | Open to the public |
| Type | English country house |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Palladian |
| Town or city | Hammerwood, East Grinstead |
| Country |
 United Kingdom
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| Construction started | 1792 |
| Completed | c. 1795 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764–1820) |
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Listed Building – Grade I
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| Designated | 26 November 1953 |
| Reference no. | 1191730 |
| Type | Grade II |
| Designated | 25 March 1987 |
| Reference no. | 1000306 |
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| Airport type | Helisite (PPR) | ||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Hammerwood Park | ||||||||||
| Location | 51°07′49″N 0°03′33″E / 51.13016°N 0.059212°E | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 268 ft / 82 m | ||||||||||
| Website | Hammerwood HLS | ||||||||||
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Hammerwood Park is a country house situated in Hammerwood (near East Grinstead, East Sussex, England). It is a Grade I listed building. One of the first houses in England to be built in the Greek Revival architectural style, it was built in 1792 as the first independent work of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
The land previously comprised part of a previous estate known as The Bower (probably named after a family called Atte Boure, who are listed as paying tax to Edward I in the 1290s), a substantial landholding which included parts of the parishes of East Grinstead and Hartfield. Sometime during the 1500s the owners, the Botting family, founded an iron forge to the east of the ponds in the valley to the south of the current house (coordinates: 51°07′36″N 0°03′37″E / 51.126641°N 0.060212°E). The forge may have been in existence in 1558, when Hugh Botting left "two tons of yron" in his will; it was working in 1653 but ruined by 1664. The dam has been recorded as 200 metres (220 yd) long. In 1693, a part of the woodland adjoining the Ashdown Forest was felled to clear the grounds of the former house on the present site. The estate, which had once been part of a medieval deer park, later passed to other families and in 1766 the owner paid window tax on forty-one windows, making the Bower the fifth largest out of the 150 taxable residences in East Grinstead. It seems likely that the present Bower House, a Tudor farmhouse in the village of Hammerwood, is of no direct relation. There existed a previous building on the site of what was to become Hammerwood Lodge (foundations and walls in the west of the central block of the current house have been dated to pre-1792), and it would seem likely that this was the principal dwelling of the Bower.
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