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Bledisloe House (Bledisloe Lodge) (Coates Manor)

  • Earlier Houses: There was at least one earlier house on the site of the current house.

    House & Family History: Stonework from the upper stories of Hams Hall, Warwickshire (which was demolished in 1920), was incorporated into the 1919-21 rebuilding of Bledisloe. In the late 1920s Bernard Firth moved Georgian chimneypieces from Clifton Maybank House (another of his seats) to Bledisloe. After Mrs. Firth died in 1949 the house was sold to the Royal Agricultural College for use as student accommodation. The college sold the house in 1952, after which Bledisloe become home to a management college. In 1988 the house was converted back into a private home. The freehold for Bledisloe was for sale in April of 2001 for £3.25 million. In late 2019, after significant restoration, the house, together with 39 acres, was listed for sale for £9,250,000.

  • Architect: Arthur Ernest Barnsley

    Date: 1919-21
    Designed: Rebuilt house for Oswald Harrison

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  • Title: Country Houses of Gloucestershire: Volume Three, 1830-2000, The
    Author: Kingsley, Nicholas; Hill, Michael
    Year Published: 2001
    Reference: pgs. 91-92
    Publisher: Sussex: Phillimore & Co. Ltd.
    ISBN: 1860771203
    Book Type: Hardback

  • House Listed: Grade II

    Park Listed: Not Listed

  • Current Seat / Home of: Darina Kogan and Martin Bellamy; here since 2020.

    Past Seat / Home of: SEATED AT EARLIER HOUSES: William Tombs, 1798-1816; William Tombs Dewe, 1851-1904; Col. H.H. Dewe, until 1907. John Richard Brinsley Norton, 5th Baron Grantley, 1907-14. Oswald Harrison, 1914-19. SEATED AT CURRENT HOUSE: Oswald Harrison, 1919-25. Bernard Alexander Firth, 1925-29; Firth family here until 1949.

    Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust

    Primary Current Ownership Use: Private Home

  • House Open to Public: No

    Historic Houses Member: No