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Tyringham Hall
Tyringham Hall is located in Buckinghamshire
Tyringham Hall
Location in Buckinghamshire
Nearest cityMilton Keynes
Site notes
Architect(s)Sir John Soane,
Ernst von Ihne,
Sir Edwin Lutyens
Architectural style
Neoclassical
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name
Tyringham Hall
Designated3 March 1952
Reference no.1115849
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name
Stable Block to North East of Tyringham Hall (including Stables Flats 1 and 2)
Designated3 March 1952
Reference no.1289308
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name
Tyringham Bridge
Designated3 March 1952
Reference no.1320229
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name
Tyringham Lodges
Designated3 March 1952
Reference no.1115893
Official name
Tyringham Hall garden and park
TypeGrade II*
Designated30 August 1987
Reference no.1000476

Tyringham Hall (/ˈtiːrɪŋəm/) is a Grade I listed country house, designed by Sir John Soane in 1792. It is located in Tyringham near Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England. Originally built for William Praed, the estate was bought by an American banker, Frederick Konig in the early 20th century. Konig undertook an extensive reconstruction of the house, adding the copper-clad dome to the roofline, and engaged Sir Edwin Lutyens to undertake a similarly drastic overhaul of the house's gardens. Tyringham remains privately owned and is not open to the public.

History

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The manor of Tyringham was held by the Tyringham family from the Middle Ages until the late 17th century. In around 1670, the estate was sold to Edward Backwell, a financier and politician. It remained the property of the Backwells for just over a century, before passing through marriage to William Praed (1747-1833).[1] Praed, a banker, businessman and politician, descended from family with roots in Cornwall.[2] Following his marriage to Elizabeth Backwell in 1778, Praed commissioned Sir John Soane to design a new house adjacent to the original medieval manor house.[3] Soane later described his time working at Tyringham as, "six of the most happy years of my life".[4]

In 1907 the hall was bought by an American banker Frederick Konig who commissioned Ernst von Ihne to remodel the house including the addition of a copper dome to the portico. Later, in 1911, Charles G. F. Rees was brought in to lay out the oval forecourt and rose garden.[5] Later additions were made by Edwin Lutyens in 1924, including a bathing pavilion, the Temple of Music and a pergola. Tyringham Hall stands in Lutyens’ formally laid-out gardens, with a tree-lined drive leading past the deer park to a gravel sweep in front of the house. The façade features stone columns with sphinxes on either side of the entrance porch leading to the reception rooms. The Temple of Music had a Welte-Philharmonic Organ.[6]

On Konig's death in 1940, the house was requisitioned to act as a wartime maternity hospital. After the war it was purchased by the Australia and New Zealand Bank as a weekend club.[1] In 1967, the house reopened as clinic managed by Sidney Rose-Neil, where patients were treated with naturopathic medicine.[7][8]

In 2001, Tyringham Hall was discovered to have asbestos and was temporarily closed.[8] It was purchased by Anton Bilton, grandson of the prefabricated housing tycoon Percy Bilton, and his wife Lisa Barbuscia-Bilton. Since 2004 they have invested around £10 million in renovating Tyringham Hall. A vineyard was established in the grounds in 2008.[9] The house was put up for sale in May 2013 with an asking price of £18 million.[10][11]

Architecture and landscape

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Tyringham is built in ashlar stone, and is of two storeys with basements and attics. The Mansard roof and copper dome are of 1909 by Ernst von Ihne.[a][5] The interior largely retains Soane's floorplan, but almost all of his decoration was swept away in Frederick Koning's reconstruction in the early 20th century. Elizabeth Williamson, in the Buckinghamshire volume in the Buildings of England series, revised and reissued in 2003, describes the combined efforts of Konig, his wife and of von Ihne as having, "ruthlessly embellished Soane's house and its surroundings in a Continental Baroque taste entirely at odds with Soane's severe Neoclassicism".[5]

Edwin Lutyens' redesign of the grounds created a long axis running north-west from the rear of the house.[1] Along the axis, Lutyens placed three pools; firstly a long, rectangular swimming pool, which terminates in the Temple of Music to the right, and the Bathing Pavilion to the left; then a circular pool with columns; and finally a shorter rectangular pool.[b][12]

Historic listing designations

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Tyringham Hall is a Grade I listed building. The stable block by Soane, his entrance lodges and his bridge also have Grade I listings.[13] Tyringham's parkland is listed at Grade II* on Historic England's Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. Also listed at Grade II* are two garden buildings by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Temple of Music and the Bathing Pavilion.[14]

Landscaping features listed at Grade II include three sets of gate piers, two sets of columns and capitals, three sets of walling, a fountain in the entrance forecourt, a statue of Time, and the kitchen garden.[15]

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Several of Soane's designs for Tyringham did include a dome but Elizabeth Williamson describes that which was built as "nothing like" Soane's options.[5]
  2. ↑ In the 21st century, the last of the three pools was filled in and is now the site of a tennis court.[12]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Historic England. "Tyringham (Grade II*) (1000476)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  2. ↑ "Praed, William (1747-1833), of Tyringham, Buckinghamshire and Trevethoe, nr. St. Ives, Cornwall". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 July 2026.
  3. ↑ Page 1927, pp. 482–485.
  4. ↑ Savills 2013, p. 8.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Williamson & Pevsner 2003, p. 704.
  6. ↑ National Pipe Organ Register No. 9640
  7. ↑ Newman Turner, Roger (10 March 1999). "Sidney Rose-Neil obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  8. 1 2 Templeton, Tom (14 September 2003). "Tyringham to reopen". The Observer. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  9. ↑ Savills 2013, p. 39.
  10. ↑ Silverman, Rosa (24 May 2013). "25-bed country estate: yours for just £18m". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  11. ↑ "Tyringham Hall: the ultimate country house". Country Life. 9 May 2013.
  12. 1 2 Williamson & Pevsner 2003, p. 705.
  13. ↑
  14. ↑
  15. ↑

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