Ovington House is a late 18th century house in
Ovington, Hampshire
Itchen Stoke and Ovington () is an English civil parish consisting of two adjoining villages in Hampshire, England, west of Alresford town centre in the valley of the River Itchen, north-east of Winchester, and south-east of Itchen Abbas.
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History
The house was built for
James Standerwick
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It was inherited by his daughter
Elizabeth Standerwick
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, who married,
Sir Thomas Richard Swinnerton Dyer, 7th Baronet (c. 1770 – 1838).
When he died, she remarried, to Frederick, Baron von Zandt of
Würzburg
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There were no heirs.
In 1910, the property was acquired by
Harvey Hoare
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Hoare's Bank
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In 1975, the estate was broken up and sold at auction.
The North Lodge is listed Grade II.
Legacy
London's
Ovington Square
Ovington Square is a garden square in central London's Knightsbridge district. It lies between Brompton Road to the north-west (reached via Ovington Gardens) and Walton Street to the south-east.
History
The freehold property on which the squa ...
is named after the estate.
References
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Houses in Hampshire