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Tythrop Park, also known as Tythrop House, is a Grade I–listed 17th-century
Tythrop Park
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Tythrop Park, also known as Tythrop House, is a Grade I–listed 17th-century manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
, set in of parkland, in Kingsey
Kingsey is a small village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is near the boundary with Oxfordshire, about two miles east of Thame and a mile south of Haddenham.
The village toponym is of 12th-century o ...
, Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...
, England. According to Pevsner the exterior is plain and unpromising, but inside the house he describes the staircase as one of the finest in the county, with "extremely luscious openwork foliage".
The property is noted as having installed an early duck decoy, similar to that at the Boarstall Duck Decoy
The Boarstall Duck Decoy is a 17th-century duck decoy located in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, England, and now a National Trust property. The system took advantage of a two-acre lake with pipe-cage tunnels running out of it.
At one time a com ...
.
It was bought in 2007 for £12.5 million by Nicholas Wheeler
Nicholas Charles Tyrwhitt Wheeler (born 20 January 1965) is an English businessman. In 1986, he established the Charles Tyrwhitt company and shirt brand, which he owns.
Life and career
Wheeler was born Ludlow, Shropshire and was educated a ...
(founder of mail-order shirt company Charles Tyrwhitt
Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts Ltd. ( ), also known as CT Shirts, is a British multi-channel clothing retailer specialising in dress shirts, ties, suits, casualwear, shoes and accessories.
Founded as a mail order company in 1986 by Nicholas Wheeler w ...
), and Chrissie Rucker
Chrissie Rucker (born 6 November 1968 in Edenbridge, Kent) is a British businesswoman, best known for founding British retailer The White Company in 1994. Because of her self-made success story and the similar products, she has been compared to ...
(founder of The White Company). The couple renovated the property before moving in with their four children.
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