The Gatehouse website record for Cornbury House

In the civil parish of Cornbury And Wychwood. In the historic county of Oxfordshire (Modern Authority of Oxfordshire, 1974 county of Oxfordshire).

Late C16 country house on the site of an alleged royal hunting lodge. Enlarged in 1632-3, with further alterations of 1663-77, c1850 and 1901-6. The latest alterations were demolished in 1972. Irregular courtyard plan with chapel. Cornbury was a hunting lodge in the Royal Forest of Wychwood and there is known to have been a house here in 1537. The rangership of Cornbury Park was granted to prominent and deserving courtiers, hence the employment of Stone and May, both members of the Office of Works in their time. Stone's wing was one of the earliest classical country house fronts in the country. Although the Forest of Wychwood is much reduced Cornbury House still stands in an extensive wooded deer park, with lakes and further woodland beyond.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP35051817

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 334585
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 4101 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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