Hunstrete House

www.hunstretehouse.co.uk/
An 18th century Georgian manor house, situated in 71 acres of woodland,gardens and deer park.
Hunstrete House is a Grade II listed building dating from 1820. In its grounds are Hunstrete Lake and an icehouse which is also a listed building.
In September 2007 a team from the television programme Time Team visited Hunstrete to explore stories about the "Grand Mansion" which preceded the current house. It is thought that Francis Popham, a descendant of Sir John Popham, started the construction of a 17-bay mansion; however this was abandoned after his death in 1780, and the construction which had taken place was demolished in 1830, leaving just a line of arches. The building material was used in the restoration of Prior Park in Bath. The excavations undertaken tried to identify whether there was a previous medieval or Tudor manor house on the site. The programme was aired on 17 February 2008, and showed that the 1780 mansion was really the addition of a new exterior to a previous building.