This watercolour, at Firle Place, depicts the Palladian house which Sir Peter Warren purchased in 1747.
Firle Place Estate
Layout plan of Westbury House park by Charles Bridgeman, prominent 18th century landscape designer.
Firle Place Estate
Sir Peter Warren, who built Westbury House as a Palladian mansion.
Henry Hall, 4th Viscount Gage (1791 - 1877) with. his daughter Suzannah. The warren family, which owned Westbury, had married into the even wealthier Gage family and Westbury because the junior residence for members of the family.
Firle Place Estate
The daughter of Adelaide and Edward Kemble, prominent members of Victorian cultural circles, who rented Westbury House in the 1860s.
Kimbell Museum, Austin Texas
Malcolm Warner was curator of the Kimbell Museum and asked EMHG to locale the portrait of May Sartoris.
The house before the devastating fire of 1904. It had originally been built at the start of the 1690s by Richard Markes of Petersfield.
Staff of Westbury House in 1895, before the fire.
Colonel Leroy-Lewis in dark clothes, with his wife and son among the Westbury House cricket team
The ruins of Westbury House on the morning after the fire in November 1904.
Westbury House after the fire of November 1904; the Times reported the gallantry of Le Roy-Lewis in rescuing members of the household staff.
The last remains of the Palladian manor house .
Following rebuilding by Herman Le Roy-Lewis following the 1904 fire.
Le Roy-Lewis put Westbury House on the market in 1918, and in 1924 it became a boys; school, This shows a study facility in the magnificent library.
Another view of desks in the library.
The lake was used as a swimming pool.
Although the post card reads 'West Meon', and the House is very close to the village of West Meon, it is in the parish of Eaat Meon.
Jane Manners
Westbury House School bathroom
Westbury House School classroom
Westbury House School library with desks
Westbury House School dining hall
Westbury House Library.
Organ Rooms with school cups on mantelshelf
Remains of Chapel of St Nicholas in the grounds to the north.
Although Westbury House is close to the border West Meon (and has been the home of lords of West Meon manor) it is in East Meon parish and has a long and colourful history.
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