An 1824 hand-colored aquatint engraving of the House from "Ackermann's Repository of Arts"
Built / Designed For: Lady Mohun
House & Family History: Iver Grove is a purple brick house of five by three bays and two stories with a three-bay pediment on giant Doric pilasters. During World War II the House was home to Polish refugees; after the war it was abandoned and left to molder. The Ministry of Works purchased Iver Grove in 1957 and restored it, selling it back into use as a private home in the 1960s.
Comments: Pevsner, writing in "The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire": "...one of the finest houses in Bucks in the Baroque style of that date."
Country Life: CXXXIV, 372 plan, 1963.
Title: Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, The
Author: Pevsner, Nikolaus; Williamson, Elizabeth
Year Published: 1994
Reference: pg. 414
Publisher: London: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140710620
Book Type: Hardback
Title: Classical Architecture in Britain: The Heroic Age
Author: Worsley, Giles
Year Published: 1995
Reference: pg. 118
Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
ISBN: 0300058969
Book Type: Hardback
Title: No Voice From the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper
Author: Harris, John
Year Published: 1998
Reference: pg. 55
Publisher: London: John Murray
ISBN: 0719555671
Book Type: Hardback
House Listed: Grade II*
Park Listed: Not Listed
Past Seat / Home of: Charlotte, Lady Mohun, 1722-25. Admiral of the Fleet James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, 19th century. James Howie Mitchell, 1961-73. Sir Tom Stoppard, 1974-97.
Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust
Primary Current Ownership Use: Private Home
House Open to Public: No
Historic Houses Member: No