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Tracy Park is an estate near Wick, South Gloucestershire, close to the boundary with Bath and North East Somerset and approximately from the World Heritage City of Bath. Set in approximately of parkland, the house is a Grade II listed building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Listed Buildings )〕 It has a 17th-century nucleus behind a classical two-storey front built of Ashlar stone. The gate piers either side of a the carriageway leading to the house are also Grade II listed. The estate is documented from 1246. Throughout the 17th and most of the 18th centuries, the estate was owned by a succession of Bristol merchants and tradesmen, culminating in Robert Bush, a pewterer, who purchased the estate in 1774. His son, Robert, constructed a classical façade in ''c''. 1800, obscuring much of the original building. Sold for more than £12,000 to General Sir William Gabriel Davy in 1820, it was much altered and rebuilt by his son, a prominent Freemason, who adorned the estate with many Masonic symbols. The estate again changed hands in 1926. The mansion ceased to be a private house in 1973, when it was auctioned and subsequently became a golf and country club and hotel. ==Early history== During the Roman occupation of Britain, a large villa was sited on what is today the Tracy park estate. It was excavated in 1865, when it was found that the villa had once been enclosed by earthworks encompassing some two acres of land. However, Standing Stones, thought to be the remains of a long barrow, just under a mile from the house, suggest that the site was occupied earlier than this. The present site became the property of John de Tracye in 1246; the park probably constituted 100 acres of land at the bottom of Freezing Hill and his manor house was likely near the church and not in the park, although its exact location is unknown. His descendants, Lords of the Manor of Doynton, held the property until the end of the 16th century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tracypark.co.uk/hotel/our-history/ )〕 The estate was purchased from John de Tracye's descendants in 1595 by William Wintor, who likely built the house a few years later.〔 It was a small gabled building, known in the 17th century as Well House. By 1718, it had a hall and kitchen and, in the 18th century, sat in a park comprising 200 acres of land. The estate was owned by a succession of Bristol tradesmen, ending with Robert Bush, a successful Bristol pewterer, who purchased the house in 1774 for £6,250. Bush's son, Robert, inherited the estate. Most traces of the 17th-century house were obscured when he rebuilt it and gave it a classical façade in ''c''. 1800. In 1820, Bush sold the estate to General Sir William Gabriel Davy (1780–1856) for £12,818, and it is his son, Rev. Charles Raikes Davy, who after inheriting the estate from his father in 1856, is responsible for the size and appearance of the house and estate seen today. Charles Raikes Davy began a program of rebuilding the mansion in 1858; datestones bear the years 1858, 1859, 1863, 1864 and 1871. He is thought to have commissioned the Bath architect John Elkington Gill to aggrandise the early 19th-century architecture. Gill retained the western façade, but embellished the slightly projecting central three bays with an overpowering Doric tetrastyle porch.〔 It was during this rebuilding that two large pilasters were added to the western façade. In keeping with the mid-Victorian fashion for housing the growing number of servants in a separate wing, Gill also designed the large south-eastern service wing; this was designed in a loose Tudor Gothic style, linked to the main house by a belvedere. In addition to his work on the house, Davy was also responsible for building the dry-stone walls enclosing the property, and many of the estate buildings.〔 As of 2015, the Tracy Park estate consists of approximately of land.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Golf Membership )〕 Historically, the size varied: when sold by the Bush family in 1820, to William Davy, the estate consisted of just ; nineteen years later, the estate was further reduced to , although it was expanded in the 19th century by Rev. Charles Raikes Davy (1819–1885).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/77f2135c-426f-41b6-bffd-a1ad155afa51 )〕 A country estate until 1973, the Park is now a golf and country club and contains the Crown and Cromwell courses, each with 18 holes. 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「Tracy Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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