Chalcot House

Chalcot House is a Grade II* listed country house to the south of the village of Dilton Marsh, near Westbury, Wiltshire, England, standing in Chalcot Park.

History

The house was built in the early 18th century on the site of an older house, extensively altered in 1872 by James Piers St Aubyn, and restored in the 1970s.[1] The three-storey house, in Flemish bond brickwork with stone dressings, has a five-bay front with pilasters flanking the ground-floor windows.[1]

In the later nineteenth century the house was owned by Charles Paul Phipps (1815–1880),[2][3] merchant in Brazil and later Conservative MP for Westbury (1869–1874) and High Sheriff of Wiltshire (1875). Some papers relating to the Phipps family are held by the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre.[4]

In the later twentieth century the house was owned by the stockbroker Tony Rudd.[5]

Alterations were made in the twentieth century by the architect Theo Crosby. A hoard of Romano-British coins was found in the grounds near the house in 1973.[6] An auction of contents was held at the house by Sotheby's in 1989.[7]

References
  1. Historic England. "Chalcot House (1021468)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  2. "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 8 pp 148-136 – Westbury: Manors". British History Online. University of London. 1965. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  3. "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 8 pp 168-172 – Westbury: Industry and trade". British History Online. University of London. 1965. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  4. "Phipps family of Leighton and Chalcot". National Archives. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  5. Obituary: Tony Rudd. The Times, 13 June 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017. (subscription required)
  6. "ST84NW301: Romano-British coin hoard, pottery fragments". Wiltshire and Swindon Historic Environment Record. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  7. Sotheby's Sussex (1989). Chalcot House, Westbury, Wiltshire: Including English and Continental Furniture, Clocks, Carpets, Textiles, Oil Paintings, Watercolours and Prints, European Ceramics and Glass, Books, Garden Ornaments, Household Furniture and Miscellaneous Items, the Chalcot Hoard of Roman Coins. Sotheby's.


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