Field Place is a

Grade I listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...

house in

Warnham Warnham is a village and civil parish in the Horsham (district), Horsham district of West Sussex, England. The village is centred north-northwest of Horsham, from London, to the west of the A24 road (Great Britain), A24 road. The parish is in ...

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, England. It is the birthplace of the poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame durin ...

, born there in 1792. The house dates back to the thirteenth and fourteenth-centuries. It has been restored to the state it was in when Shelley lived there. Field Place was built in about 1353 by Richard Felde, and this part is now the east wing. It was later owned by the Mychel family who had added the south wing by 1525. In 1729, it was bought by Edward Shelley. On his death, the house was inherited by his nephew Sir

Timothy Shelley Sir Timothy Shelley, 2nd Baronet (7 September 1753 – 24 April 1844) was an English politician and lawyer. He was the son of Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet, and the father of Romantic poet and dramatist Percy Bysshe Shelley. Early life and ...

(1753–1844), and the poet

(1792–1822) was his eldest son. The farm buildings and much of the land is now owned separately. Percy Bysshe Shelley spent his youth at Field Place, but never lived there as an adult. His son Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet (1819–1889) inherited the property. G N Charrington, who had been a tenant, acquired the property in 1929, and restored the gardens by 1949. In 1982, Kenneth Pritchard Jones bought the house and restored it.

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