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Ockham Park is a seventeenth century English country house in Ockham, Surrey. The house is a square two-storey block in red brick with 7 bays on each side with a hipped tiled roof.〔 〕 The nearby two-storey stable block is grade II * listed and is now converted into flats.〔 〕 ==History== Built 1638 for the Weston family as their new manor house, it was altered in 1727-9 to designs by Nicholas Hawksmoor〔Laurence Whistler. "Ockham Park, Surrey: Newly discovered designs by Nicholas Hawksmoor", ''Country Life'' 29 December 1950:2218-2221; Howard Colvin, ''Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840'' 3rd ed. 1995, ''s.v.'' "Nicholas Hawksmoor" reports further Hawksmoor drawings for Ockham Park, 1727-29, conserved at Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, in John Harris, ''Catalogue of Drawings for British Architecture... in American Collections'', 1971 112-15 and plates, and at Minet Library, Camberwell, London.〕 for Lord King, the Lord Chancellor, created 1st Baron King in 1725. The family descends from a grocer of Exeter and his wife, the great-niece of philosopher John Locke. In the 1830s it was extended in Italianate style style for the seventh Lord King. His son William was elevated to an earldom as 'the Earl of Lovelace' and lived here with his wife Ada Lovelace. The house remained in the hands of the family until it was gutted by fire in 1948. The fire left the orangery, stable block, kitchen wing, and a solitary Italianate tower.〔(Ockham )〕 The estate of was in part made public once again insofar as it contributed back to Ockham and Wisley Commons but otherwise was auctioned on 21 October 1958.〔(By Clutton with Knight, Frank and Rutley ); (sale particulars )〕 The surviving buildings, in part, were restored in the 1970s.〔(British Listed Buildings: Ockham Park )〕 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「Ockham Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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