Middleton Park is a rural park in the Civil parish, parish of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, England, about west of Bicester. The grounds are Listed building#Categories of listed building, Grade II listed and include several historic buildings, notably a Listed building#Categories of listed building, Grade I listed English country house, country house with Listed building#Categories of listed building, Grade II* listed service wing and lodges.

History

The current house was designed by the English architect Edwin Lutyens and his son Robert Lutyens, Robert for George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey. It was built in 1935–38 on the site of a mid-18th-century house that had been built for William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey. It was Lutyens' last great country house. In 1974 it was converted into apartments. The estate is privately owned. In the park east of the house are Middleton's Grade II* listed Norman architecture, Norman parish church and the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle, which is a Scheduled monument#England, Scheduled Ancient Monument. The park also includes kitchen gardens, pleasure grounds, commercial woodland and the cricket ground belonging to Middleton Stoney Cricket Club.

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Country houses in Oxfordshire Grade I listed houses in Oxfordshire Grade II* listed buildings in Oxfordshire Grade II listed garden and park buildings Houses completed in 1938 Works of Edwin Lutyens in England {{Oxfordshire-struct-stub