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

House & Family History: Poulton was built in 1652 and enlarged in 1720 and 1840. The Hall was the home of Richard Lancelyn-Green, British scholar and world authority on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. In 2004, after his death, Richard Lancelyn-Green's Doyle-Holmes collection of 20,000 items, worth over £2 million, was donated to the Portsmouth Central Library and City Museum, including a recreation of Holmes's residence at 221-B Baker Street, formerly housed in an attic room in Poulton Hall (Doyle had set up a medical practice in Portsmouth, where the first two Sherlock Holmes books were written).

John Bernard (J.B.) Burke, published under the title of A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, among other titles: Vol. I, p. 223, 1852.

House Listed: Grade II

Park Listed: Not Listed

Current Seat / Home of: S.R. Lancelyn-Green; Lancelyn-Green family here since the 12th century.

Past Seat / Home of: Richard Lancelyn-Green, 20th century.

Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust

Primary Current Ownership Use: Private Home

House Open to Public: By Appointment

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.poultonhall.co.uk

Historic Houses Member: No