Quarwood or Quar Wood is a
Victorian manor near
Stow-on-the-Wold
Stow-on-the-Wold is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, on top of an 800-foot (244 m) hill at the junction of main roads through the Cotswolds, including the Fosse Way (A429), which is of Roman origin. The town was found ...
,
Gloucestershire
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,
England
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. It was formerly owned by
The Who
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's bassist
John Entwistle
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.
Description
The
Rhenish
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Gothic
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house is built on a hill in
Lower Swell
Lower Swell is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Swell, in the Cotswold district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is located at the River Dikler, one mile from Stow-on-the-Wold. The village has "finest country ...
, approached by a long driveway and through an entrance with two stone pillars decorated with lion plinths. The house, which includes a
saddle roof
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and open
loggia
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, has 55 rooms.
The main hallway features a
cantilever
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ed
staircase with wrought-iron
balustrade
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and oak handrail which leads to a galleried landing. A formal drawing room has an open fireplace with a timber surround. The Cotswold landscape is visible through picture windows, and formal gardens include terraces and a croquet lawn facing south toward the
Dikler river valley. When Entwistle bought the home, he installed two recording studios, one on the main floor and one on the top floor, and a bar with game rooms. Known for a macabre sense of humour, Entwistle kept skeletons in the master bedroom to frighten guests.
The grounds enclose 42
acre
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s, including parkland, fish ponds, paddocks, garages, woodlands and seven cottages.
History
![Near Stow-on-the-Wold - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Near_Stow-on-the-Wold_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5484.jpg)
The house was designed by architect
John Loughborough Pearson
John Loughborough Pearson (5 July 1817 – 11 December 1897) was a British Gothic Revival architect renowned for his work on churches and cathedrals. Pearson revived and practised largely the art of vaulting, and acquired in it a proficiency ...
and built in 1856–59 for £8,000 () for
Reverend Robert William Hippisley, who was the local parish priest (rector) (1844-1899). The parish's lucrative farming and
malting
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across its provided a then-record salary for that parish of £525 by 1870. Pearson had previously designed
Treberfydd in
Brecknockshire
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for Robert Raikes (1818–1901), Hippisley's brother-in-law and grandson of
Robert Raikes
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Family
Raikes was born at ...
, a wealthy
Anglican
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minister who increased junior education during and after the
Industrial Revolution
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through expanding a nationwide charity for
Sunday School
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Su ...
s. Pearson had completed restoration work on
St Edward's Church.
Quarwood was extensively remodeled in 1954–58 by
Sir Denys Lowson
Sir Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew Lowson, 1st Baronet, (22 January 1906 – 10 September 1975) was a British barrister and financier who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1950–51.
Early life and education
Lowson was born at Snitterfield House, Wa ...
. John Entwistle and his wife Alison bought the property as a weekend retreat in 1976, and Entwistle occupied the house until his death in 2002. In 2004 his son Christopher offered the house for sale at a price of £3.75 million (). Entwistle's ashes were buried in the grounds. The house is currently owned by Piet Pulford.
See also
*
List of non-ecclesiastical works by J. L. Pearson
References
External links
Quarwood photo
{{The Who
Country houses in Gloucestershire
Houses completed in 1859
J. L. Pearson buildings
John Entwistle