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Buckland House is a large Georgian stately home, the manor house of Buckland in Oxfordshire, England (formerly in Berkshire). It is a masterpiece of Palladian architecture erected by John Wood, the Younger for Sir Robert Throckmorton in 1757 to replace a previous manor house.
Buckland House stands impressively in the North Devon countryside, solid and timeless it welcomes its guests. Sleeping up to 30 in 17 bedrooms we offer friendly and relaxed accommodation for large groups with space to spread out or party in style.
Sir Robert converted the earlier house into the stables and erected the new Buckland, an Italian style summer villa that’s a cross between a Bath townhouse and a miniature palace. The main block is connected to two flanking cruciform pavilions by narrow 60-feet-long colonnades.
A mid C18 country house surrounded by a contemporary park and pleasure grounds laid out by Richard Woods, with a formal garden terrace added probably by W H Romaine Walker c 1910 during extension work to the house.
Their manor house at Buckland, now known as Buckland House, is a fine work in the Palladian style. The Manor House (Old Stables) 19 th century 1 At the same time Richard Woods was commissioned to lay out the park and pleasure grounds, including twin lakes, a rotunda and an ice house.
Buckland House has landscape gardens and park which were designed around 1757 by Richard Woods, and now cover about 85 hectares.
HISTORY. The House goes back to the time of William the Conqueror and was given by him to one of his French friends Sir William de Punchardon then by marriage to the Filleigh family, from nearby South Molton, and in 1454 to the Fortescues from South Devon who lived here for 400 years until 1834.
