Wootton Lodge

United Kingdom / England / Mayfield / Waste Lane
 mansion / manor house / villa, Grade I Listed (UK)
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Grade I Listed Building
Privately owned 17th century country house. Wootton Lodge was built about 1611 for Sir Richard Fleetwood Bt (High Sheriff in 1614) possibly by architect Robert Smythson.
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Wootton Lodge, Staffordshire, where I stayed with Diana Mosley in December 1936 and listened to Edward VIII make his abdication speech, while the tears poured down our cheeks. Then it was one of the most romantic houses conceivable. Today having been bought by a rich businessman, it is totally ruined. The window quarrels have been replaced by plate glass, unsightly additions have been made to one side, a preposterous and hideous fence of iron spikes, such as might have confined the inmates of a prison, erected and behind it a belt of churchyard Lawsonias planted.
(Diaries, 1971-1983 by James Lees-Milne)
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootton_Lodge
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Coordinates:   52°59'29"N   1°51'32"W

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  • Latterly the estate was purchased and much improved by J. C. Bamford and is still owned by his family.
  • Exterior shots of Wootton Lodge were used in the 1947 Technicolor film Blanche Fury, which starred Valerie Hobson and Stewart Granger.
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