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designed by Sir Banister Fletcher, a British architect, in 1901 for George Miles-Bailey, on the site of a former grange of St. Mary's Abbey, Winchester. The house consists of a two-storey main block with attic and a projecting single-storey billiards hall on the left, and is built on a levelled platform cut out of the hillside. The Dutch-gabled right-hand three bays of the main block project forward and have, in the centre, an Ionic porch with pairs of column supporting a heavy entablature. Over the porch is a seven-light mullioned and transom window, and to either side is a three-light

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. In 1984, the interior was said to be largely unaltered. The house is now a country club for the

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, and forms part of their Leckford estate.

References

*''The Architect'', 25 August 1905 *''Building News'' 18 October 1901, p. 519; 20 December 1901, p. 835
''A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4.''
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