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Poslingford House

(also known as Shadow Bush and Poslingford Park)
Named after the ancient woodland nearby, the Shadowbush Estate was originally owned by the Golding family. Through marriage it passed to Colonel Thomas Weston who built the present neoclassical house c. 1820 with pleasure grounds and surrounding park with two entrances and lodges. The walled garden was attached to a coach house to the north. In 1844 it was sold into the Severne family, changed ownership twice during the twentieth century and again in 2016/7. Today there is little change in the extent and character of the gardens and parkland, although the lodge to the southern drive is now in ruins. The walled garden and attached coach house were converted to residential in the 2010s, using the northern drive for access.
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New House Farm

The home of the Golding family, there was a reference to a ‘Newhouse’ in the sixteenth century, although the present house dates to the seventeenth century and had major alterations and additions in the eighteenth century. The site sits in a small park and includes a surviving eighteenth century canal-like pond and once had a walkway, summerhouse and small formal garden that have been lost. It became a farmhouse in the nineteenth century when a new ‘model’ farm courtyard was created opposite the house, now mostly lost save remnants of low enclosure walls.
Not open to the public