Lodge
House & Family History: Crowsley, a house with a garden facade of 13 bays and an entrance facade of 10 bays, was built circa 1720 and enlarged and Gothicized circa 1800. The enlargements included the battlemented porch and corner turrets. The main staircase has twisted balusters and carved treads. During the 19th century the house was owned by the Baskerville family. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle supposedly wrote his story "The Hound of the Baskervilles" during a visit to Crowsley and was, as the story goes, inspired by the forbidding gates at Crowsley Park that still display menacing dogs' heads biting spears. Today the grounds of the estate are home to the government radar tracking station.
Garden & Outbuildings: There is an 18th century flint grotto with interior walls partially lined with shells extant in the Park.
Title: Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, The
Author: Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus
Year Published: 1974
Publisher: London: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140710450
Book Type: Hardback
House Listed: Demolished
Park Listed: Destroyed
Past Seat / Home of: Bakserville family, 19th century.
Current Ownership Type: Demolished
Primary Current Ownership Use: Demolished
House Open to Public: No
Historic Houses Member: No