Built / Designed For: Supposedly built by John of Bynteworth, who used the house as a manor court.

House & Family History: Bentworth is noted for its two-story medieval hall, complete with cross wings and porch. In early 2013 the House was sold privately for over £10 million.

Country Life: XCV, 860, 904, 1944.

House Listed: Grade II*

Park Listed: Not Listed

Possible Seat of: William de Aula, 14th century. John of Byntewort, 14th century.

Past Seat / Home of: William Melton, Archbishop of York, 14th century. William Edendon, Bishop of Winchester, 14th century. Henry Windsor, 5th Lord Windsor, 16th century. Hunt family, late 16th century. Sir James Woolveridge, early 17th century. Thomas Turgis, mid-17th century. William Urry, early 18th century. Gertrude Lady Penrhyn, wife of 2nd Baron Penrhyn, early 20th century. Sonia Cubitt, divorced wife of 3rd Baron Ashcombe, maternal grandmother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, 1946-86.

Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust

Primary Current Ownership Use: Private Home

House Open to Public: No

Historic Houses Member: No