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Fairfield House is a historic house in Stogursey, Somerset, England. A house existed on the site from the 12th century and it has been owned by the same family since that time. The current building is largely 16th-century, but has undergone various remodellings since then. It is designated as a Grade II * listed building.〔 The house was surrounded by a Medieval deer park covering approximately . Part of this was converted into an Elizabethan garden around 1580, and now includes a walled garden. The current owner is Elizabeth Gass who has sold some of the surrounding parkland to Hinkley Point Power station. ==History== A manor house existed on the site in 1166. Little is known about the original house, but the ownership is given as lying with the Russel family by 1216. The house was considered to be in the Lilstock parish in 1498 when John Verney, a descendant of Russel, paid a fine for his support of Perkin Warbeck. The house has remained in the ownership of their descendants ever since.〔 Around 1473 a licence was granted by the king to William Verney to surround the house with a wall and seven round towers. Three of the towers were still surviving in the 18th century; however none remain today.〔Dunning pages 55-59〕 There was a separate chapel from 1288 until the 17th century, but its location is now unknown.〔〔 In the 16th century it was remodelled by Elizabeth Verney including a porch which dates from 1589; however, the house was still described as unfinished in 1633.〔 This may have been because parts of the earlier house built around a courtyard were in the process of being demolished.〔 In the 18th century the interior was remodeled with the addition of new staircases in each main wing. In the late 18th and early 19th century Sir John Acland made further changes which are believed to have been designed by Richard Carver. By 1870 Alexander Acland-Hood controlled the estate.〔 In 1967 Elizabeth Gass inherited from an uncle the family's ancestral seat, and gave up her teaching career to concentrate on managing the estate which came with it. She has been the Lord Lieutenant of Somerset since 1998.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lord Lieutenant )〕〔‘GASS, Elizabeth Periam Acland Hood, (Lady Gass)’, in ''Who's Who 2012'' (London: A. & C. Black, 2012)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fairfield, Stogursey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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