Biddesden House

Biddesden House is a Grade I listed [1] English country house in the parish of Ludgershall, Wiltshire (near Andover, Hampshire). It is home to an Arabian Horse stud farm.

Biddesden House

History

The house belonged to John Richmond Webb from 1692. About 1909 it was bought sight unseen by George Gribble, on the recommendation of his wife Norah Royd and their son Philip; the family moved there from Henlow Grange.[2] In 1929 Biddesden House and about 200 acres were sold, probably by Olive Baring, to E. R. Fothergill, who in 1931 sold them to Bryan Guinness, later Lord Moyne.[3] Guinness descendants still live there.

Biddesden Stud

The stud bred the eventing champion Tamarillo.

References
  1. Historic England. "Biddesden House, Ludgershall (1035997)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  2. Gribble, Philip (1964). Off the Cuff: An Autobiography. London: Phoenix House. p. 25.
  3. A. P. Baggs, Jane Freeman, Janet H Stevenson, 'Ludgershall', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 15, Amesbury Hundred, Branch and Dole Hundred, ed. D A Crowley (London, 1995), pp. 119-135 (online edition accessed 22 February 2019
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