Gaston Grange is a large country manor situated in the hamlet of

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in the large

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Bentworth Bentworth is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. The nearest town is Alton, which lies about east of the village. The parish covers an area of and at its highest point is King's Hill, above sea ...

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. It is about southwest of the centre of Bentworth and about west of

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, its nearest town. The manor lies west of the Bentworth-

Medstead Medstead is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Alton, which lies northeast of the village. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 2,036 people. The parish ...

road towards

Upper Wield Upper Wield is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Wield. It is west of Alton. The nearest railway station is the restored Medstead & Four Marks station on the Watercress Line, trains ...

, south of Gaston Wood.

History

The manor estate area was formerly part of the

Bentworth Hall Bentworth Hall is a English country houses, country house in the civil parish, parish of Bentworth in Hampshire, England. It is about south of Bentworth village centre and northwest of Alton, Hampshire, Alton, the nearest town. Before the 1830 ...

estate until the 1950s. In the late 19th century, Emma Gordon-Ives owned Bentworth Hall and in 1890 her son Colonel Gordon Maynard Gordon-Ives built Gaston Grange east of the current Bentworth Hall. In 1914, his son Lieutenant Colonel

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lived in Gaston Grange. He served in the

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and was also a politician dealing with

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matters, dying in July 1923. After his death, the Bentworth Hall Estate was offered for sale by Messrs John D Wood & Co. and at this time consisted of . The house once had a grand ballroom which was removed in the 1920s. The white painted house has masonry walls, a timber pitched roof with what is likely Welsh blue grey slate, and a wooden staircase made by the

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-based firm Dart & Francis. Gaston Grange has been extensively renovated in recent times.

References

{{Bentworth Parish Country houses in Hampshire East Hampshire District Manor houses in England