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Tetworth Hall is a large
country house An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these peopl ...
between Ascot and Sunninghill in the
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county of
Berkshire Berkshire ( ; in the 17th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a historic county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal County of Berk ...
. It has been listed Grade II on the
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since March 1972. The former estate lodge of the hall is also listed Grade II. The house dates from the early 18th century, and a wing was built to extend the house to the west in the late 18th century. It is set over two storeys and basement. It was altered in the 19th century with the removal of the second floor and chimneys occurring in the mid-20th century. 24 acres of the Tetworth estate were sold in September 1933.
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, the founder of what became the
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, occupied Tetworth between 1798 and 1819. His wife, Sarah, died at the house in 1804. She is buried at the nearby church of St Michael and All Angels, Sunninghill, where the family held a pew. It was the residence of the Lady Emma Harris, widow of Admiral Sir Edward Harris in the 1890s. She died at the house in 1896. The
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and
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politician Henry Frederick Beaumont lived at Tetworth in the 1910s. His son, Captain H.B. Beaumont, resided at the house in the 1920s. Arthur Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough and his wife Lady Alice, rented the house in August 1925.
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auction house held a sale of silver plate from Beaumont's estate at Tetworth in July 1931. It was bought by the Dowager Lady Buchanan Jardine of the
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in 1932. She held a house warming party during the week of
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in June 1932. The house was rented by Lady Dorothy Charteris, the wife of
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for Royal Ascot in 1937. The rackets player and theatrical producer
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and his wife, the industrial heiress Katherine Horlick, moved from the United States to live at Tetworth in 1939. The
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bought Tetworth in November 1945. The property developer Rudolph Palumbo lived at Tetworth in the 1950s. Lt-Col Robert Cradoc Rose Price, the brother of the actor
Dennis Price Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose Price (23 June 1915 – 6 October 1973) was an English actor, best remembered for his role as Louis Mazzini in the film ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' (1949) and for his portrayal of the omnicompetent valet Jeeves ...
, lived at Tetworth in the 1960s and 70s. Tetworth Hall was bought by the businessman and hotelier
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in the 20th century and has been the home of his extended family.


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