Hatchlands Park

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Hatchlands Park
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East front of the house
Type Country house
Location East Clandon, Surrey
Coordinates 51°15′26″N0°28′19″W / 51.2573°N 0.4720°W / 51.2573; -0.4720 Coordinates: 51°15′26″N0°28′19″W / 51.2573°N 0.4720°W / 51.2573; -0.4720
OS grid reference TQ 06733 52009
Built1750
Architect Stiff Leadbetter
Owner National Trust
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameHatchlands
Designated14 Jun 1967
Reference no. 1294970
Official nameHatchlands
Designated27 July 2007
Reference no. 1001697
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Location of Hatchlands Park in Surrey

Hatchlands Park is a red-brick country house with surrounding gardens in East Clandon, Surrey, England, covering 170 hectares (430 acres). It is located near Guildford along the A246 between East Clandon and West Horsley. Hatchlands Park has been a Grade I listed property since 1967. [1] The gardens were Grade II listed in 2007. [2]

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History

The park initially belonged to the Chertsey Abbey with the park being mentioned in the Domesday Book. In 1544, after the dissolution of the monasteries, it was granted by Henry VIII to Sir Anthony Browne and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald ('The Fair Geraldine' of Henry Howard). [3] The first visual record of the park is shown on a John Seller map of 1693. [4]

The park was purchased in 1750 by Admiral Edward Boscawen who landscaped the grounds; for the house he employed the architect Stiff Leadbetter. Edward Boscawen's widow, Fanny sold the estate in 1770 to the Sumner family of the East India Company; both father and son made further alterations to the property. [1] The father, William Brightwell Sumner commissioned Benjamin Armitage to make alterations, and his son, George Holme Sumner asked Humphry Repton (1752–1818) to redesign the park and garden. [1] Towards the end of the century, Joseph Bonomi, ARA, was commissioned to alter several rooms and to impose a frontispiece on the west front. [1]

In 1888, the Sumner family sold the estate to Stuart Rendel, later Lord Rendel. [1] He had extensive changes made to the fabric of the house. Rendel was mainly his own architect but he also employed his nephew by marriage, Halsey Ricardo, and commissioned Reginald Blomfield to build the Music Room. Rendel coloured and gilded Adam's ceilings, embellished the staircase with rococo decorations and switched the main entrance of the house to the east. Rendel also commissioned Gertrude Jekyll to design the gardens which contain a parterre. [5] [1] Lord Rendel's grandson, Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel, who was an architect and British Army officer, inherited the house in 1913. [1] He passed the estate to the National Trust in 1945. [1]

The house is open to the public, but closed on certain days of the week. However, the Parkland is now open 363 days a year. There is a café and a shop. There is a cobbled courtyard. [6]

The interior

The house contains splendid interiors by Robert Adam, decorated in appropriately nautical style: anchors, cannon, dolphins and sea-nymphs are presided over by Neptune himself run through the house reflecting its first owner Edward Boscawen. [3]

Cobbe Collection

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Cobbe portrait, possibly of William Shakespeare

The house is home to the Cobbe Collection; with forty two historic keyboard instruments it is the world's largest group of its kind. [7] Many of the instruments are associated with famous composers. The instruments include harpsichords and fortepianos dating from 1750 to 1840 – including an Erard pianoforte reputedly made for Marie Antoinette. It is one of the few French instruments of the time to escape destruction for firewood following the 1789 revolution. The pieces were brought together to represent those instrument makers who were highly regarded or patronised by composers, rather than to illustrate a complete or technical history of keyboard manufacture. Twelve of the instruments were actually owned or played by great composers such as Purcell, J. C. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Mahler and Elgar. [8]

Hatchlands also houses part of the Cobbe collection of paintings, including what is claimed to be one of only two surviving portraits of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Historic England, "Hatchlands (1294970)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 8 November 2017
  2. ↑ Historic England. "Hatchlands (1001697)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  3. 1 2 National Trust Hatchlands history Archived 2008-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Surrey - John Seller's rare map of Surrey". Daniel Crouch Rare Books. 1700. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  5. ↑ The gardens by Judy Farncombe Archived 2007-04-21 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 21/4/07
  6. ↑ Guildford Borough Council Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ "Cobbe Collection of keyboard instruments". Cecilia. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Cobbe Collection". National Trust. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  9. ↑ Hatchlands Park - List of the Cobbe collection of paintings. Swindon: National Trust. p. 1.
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