Chieveley House

The house was built around 1716, identifiable by dates on the rainwater heads. Pevsner records Chieveley as one of a range of "grand houses [set] behind high brick walls" on the village's High Street. At the time of its construction the occupants are recorded as a gentleman, his four children, and six servants. In the 20th century, the house was occupied by Valentine Wyndham-Quin, son of Windham Wyndham-Quin and subsequently the Baroness Howard de Walden. In 1976 Chieveley was bought by Lord Goff of Chieveley, who took the name of the village when made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and a life peer in 1986. Pevsner describes Chieveley as a "compact hipped roofed dolls' house of red brick".…