Wickhamford Manor House

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Le château en bref

Wickhamford Manor is a manor house in Worcestershire, a few kilometres from Evesham, which together with its outbuildings and the church of St John the Baptist forms a group gathered around a pond, a former medieval fishpond. Pevsner considered this group particularly picturesque. The site was originally a grange of Evesham Abbey, which had owned Wickhamford since the early 8th century. The present house, probably 16th-century, combines timber framing and limestone rubble over two storeys, with an east front framed by two gabled wings. A medieval dovecote and a barn, both also protected, complete the estate. After the Dissolution, the manor passed to Thomas Throckmorton and then, in 1594, to the Sandys family, who kept it until 1860. In the 20th century it was the childhood home of the writer James Lees-Milne, a leading figure in the preservation of English country houses. The estate is now privately owned.