Battlefields House (Battlefield House)

Lansdown

Bath & North East Somerset

England

Historic County: Gloucestershire

Circa Date: 1802

Status: Fully Extant

House Open to Public: No

Country House: Yes

House & Family History: Lilliput Castle, the summer house for surgeon Jeremy Pierce, was incorporated into the new Gothic-style Battlefields House.
Garden & Outbuildings: The grounds contain the remains of an early 19th century garden that was laid-out on the site of the 1640 Battle of Lansdown.
Architect: Samuel Dunckley

Date of Birth: ?
Date of Death: 1714
Nationality: ?

Date: 1836
Designed: Gothic gate lodge

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Architect: Charles Harcourt Masters

Date of Birth: 1759
Date of Death: ?
Nationality: British
Notes: Masters was the son of Benedict Masters, a Bath goldsmith. The younger Masters was very likely trained as a land surveyor; by 1782 he was an assistant to Somerset surveyor William Day. Masters was well known in the West Country as a landscape designer.

Date: 1802
Designed: House

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Title: Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840, A - SOFTBACK
Author: Colvin, Howard
Year Published: 1995
Reference: pg. 644
Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300072074
Book Type: Softback
House Listed: Grade II

Park Listed: Not Listed
Past Seat / Home of: Alexander MacDougall, 19th century. Staight family, 20th century. Ware family, 20th century.

Current Ownership Type: Flat Owners Company / Condo Association

Primary Current Ownership Use: Flats / Multi Family
House Open to Public: No
Historic Houses Member: No

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