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Youngsbury House is a
Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
house near
Wadesmill Wadesmill is a hamlet in Hertfordshire, England, located on the north side of the River Rib with an estimated population of 264. At the 2011 Census the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Thundridge. Running through the ...
, Hertfordshire, England. The stable block is
Grade II* listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
. The house was built in about 1745 by David Poole, with 97 acres of grounds, and gardens landscaped by
Capability Brown Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English la ...
.


People connected with it

David Barclay, the Quaker banker and abolitionist, bought the manor in 1769, and enlarged the house. A plan by Capability Brown the following year introduced a serpentine lake. Barclay sold it in 1793, after the death of his second wife, to William Cunliffe Shawe, and it passed in 1796 to Daniel Giles. In 2012, it was for sale, "offers in excess of £3,900,000". As of 2015, it was owned by Jeremy Langmead, the former editor of ''
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'' magazine and ''
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'' magazin, who used to be married to writer
India Knight India Knight (née Gisèle Aertsens; born 14 December 1965) is a British journalist and author. She writes for British newspapers, and has written the books: ''My Life on a Plate'', ''Don't You Want Me?'', ''The Shops'', ''Neris and India's Id ...
."Ripping up the Yule book: Jeremy Langmead's dysfunctional family festivities"
''London Evening Standard'', 9 December 2011
In 2017 it was sold to James and Claire Pearce who plan to restore it to its original state and use it as a family home for them and their three children. It took nearly three years to obtain all the required Planning and other permissions. However, the house itself was completed in February 2023 and the family occupied it. The gardens and other nearby features are to be completed, although the parkland remains open to walkers.


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