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THE PARK HOUSE short architectural history:

A Saxon house c1042- c1080
Norman house c1080 ?
Elizabethan/Tudor house purchased by Richard Cartwright: burnt down during the Civil War in 1645. House rebuilt around the Elizabethan carcass in the Jacobean style cl662 by Edward Marshall. Charles II’s master mason (he subsequently worked with Christopher Wren on St Paul’s Cathedral.)
1707 – 1714 House enlarged and modernized by Thomas Archer. Groom Porter to Queen Anne — a dilettante gentleman architect.
1799 - 1804 House restyled into an elegant, country gents residence by Sir John Soane.

 

The Cartwright Family
Richard 1564 – 1637 = Mary Egerton 1579 – 1654
John 1614 – 1676 = Katherine Noy – 1644
William 1634 – 1674 = Ursula Fairfax (2) – 1702
Thomas 1671 – 1748 = Armine Crewe – 1728
William ?? – 1768 = Byzantia Lane (1)
Thomas 1735 – 1772 = Mary Desaguilliers
William Ralph 1771 – 1847 = Hon Emma Maude (1)
Sir Thomas 1794 – 1850 = Marie Sandizell (Lili)
William Cornwallis 1826 – 1915 = Clementine Gaul
Sir Fairfax Leighton 1857 – 1928 = Maria Chigi
Richard 1903 – 1954 = Hon Elspeth Weir
Edward 1936 –1954.