Boreham House

 estate (manor / mansion land), mansion / manor house / villa, Grade I Listed (UK)

Just outside the village is Boreham House, a stately home that was once a palace of Henry VIII and was later the estate of the Tyrell family and latterly the Hoare banking family. Benjamin Hoare commissioned architect Henry Flitcroft to build the current house in 1727; the early Georgian mansion is now a Grade II listed building. In the 1930s Boreham House and 3000 acres (12 km²) of land surrounding it was bought by car magnate Henry Ford. In addition to using the house as a school for training Ford tractor mechanics, the company's British chairman, Lord Perry, established Fordson Estates Limited there and founded the Henry Ford Institute of Agricultural Engineering, an agricultural college which continues to occupy the house. The house also served as the temporary home for Cranfield University.
A Grade I listed building.
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