Lordington House is a manor house near

Walderton Walderton is a hamlet in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the B2146 road 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Emsworth. It is in the civil parish of Stoughton. The village lies just below the source of the River Ems. I ...

West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ar ...

. It is a Grade II*

listed building 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 ...

History

Lordington House was built around 1500. It was acquired by

Sir Geoffrey Pole Sir Geoffrey Pole of Lordington, Sussex (c. 1501 or 1502 – November 1558) was an English knight who supported the Catholic Church in England and Wales when Henry VIII of England was establishing the alternative Church of England with ...

in the 16th century, by Hugh Speke in 1609 and then by Sir John Fenner in 1623. It was then bought by Phillip Jermyn in 1630, by Richard Peckham in around 1689 and by Richard Peckham (Peckham's great nephew) in 1718. After Peckham's death in 1734 it passed to his sister, Sarah, who married Thomas Phipps in 1742. It passed to her son

Thomas Peckham Phipps Thomas Peckham Phipps (1750-1820) was an English landowner who served as Sheriff of Sussex in 1814. Baptised at the church of St Andrew Holborn in Middlesex on 15 April 1750, he was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Phipps (1707-1776), a Wiltshi ...

, who died unmarried, and then to the Phipps Hornby family. The house was modified and extended by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Geoffrey Hornby who died there in March 1895. It was sold to Sir Michael Hamilton in 1960 and now operates as a bed and breakfast facility under the management of the Hamilton family.

References

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