The Newhouse Estate Redlynch, Wiltshire An historic English Estate located in the New Forest National Park, on the market for the first time in nearly 400 years The Newhouse Estate, Redlynch, Wiltshire, SP5 2NX Redlynch 1 mile, Salisbury 9.5 miles, Southampton 15 miles (London Waterloo approx. 65 minutes), Winchester 25 miles, London 90 miles Features: Grade I Listed Jacobean mansion with 5 reception rooms and 7 bedrooms, extensive lawned gardens, former walled garden, parkland, lakes and woodland Grade II Listed stables courtyard incorporating a 5-bedroom house and outbuildings Farmhouse and 3 further cottages Two separate farmsteads including agricultural and commercial buildings Farmland and extensive broadleaf and coniferous woodland In all about 905 acres (366 hectares) Available as a whole or in up to 8 lots The Lots: Lot 1 – Newhouse Lot 3B – Land at Whiteshoot Hill Principal Grade 1 Listed country house with courtyard, An attractive parcel of land including grass paddocks and woodland two further houses and let buildings in an exceptional park and woodland setting About 51.74 acres (20.94 hectares) About 275.96 acres (111.67 hectares) Lot 3C – Paddocks west of Bohemia Lot 2A – Milkhills Park Farm A selection of grass paddocks located around the edge of the hamlet of Bohemia Let buildings, arable land, pasture and woodland strategically located around Lover village About 16.24 acres (6.57 hectares) About 173.87 acres (70.40 hectares) Lot 4 – Loosehanger Woods Lot 2B – Church Walk Farm A substantial block of woodland located south of Lover A delightful smallholding located in the heart of Lover About 334.82 acres (135.45 hectares) including a two bedroom detached cottage, farm buildings and paddocks About 8.11 acres (3.29 hectares) Lot 5 – Shearings A two-bedroom bungalow and paddock Lot 3A – Mount Pleasant Farm About 1.63 acres (0.66 hectares) A traditional New Forest farmstead including a three-bedroom farmhouse, farm buildings and land with tremendous potential About 43.28 acres (17.49 hectares) Situation The New Forest Newhouse is a truly magnificent The Forest was created by William Grade I Listed country house set the Conqueror in 1079 and is still in a beautiful private location with largely in the possession of the fine views over its own parkland Crown, comprising woodland, and woodland beyond. Discretely pasture, heaths and the remains of positioned on the north eastern 17th, 18th and 19th century coppices corner of the New Forest National and timber plantations. It is grazed Park, the Estate is situated around by the ponies, cattle and pigs of the the highly desirable village of Lover local ‘commoners’ which add to and just to the west of the village the picturesque charm of the area. of Redlynch. The Forest is a walking and riding paradise unmatched anywhere in the Local amenities in Redlynch include south of England. a post office/store, village hall, church, two country pubs and two Historical Note well renowned golf courses. The Newhouse Estate is an important, privately owned property A further selection of services can on the northern edge of the New be found in the market town of Forest National Park. Since 1633, the Fordingbridge 7 miles or the historic house and Estate have been owned cathedral city of Salisbury 9.5 miles by the same family with an historical to the north. The commercial centres association to Admiral Nelson. of Southampton and Bournemouth on the south coast offer further Newhouse, or Tychebourne Park, excellent shopping and recreational as it was previously called, was facilities. A direct train service built between 1604 and 1619 by runs from Southampton Parkway William Stockman and believed to station to London Waterloo taking be designed by John Thorpe (1564/5 65 minutes. Southampton Airport to 1655) with an unusual Y-shaped is 13 miles and has private aircraft design referred to as a Trinity House, facilities; Heathrow Airport is representing the three arms of the 69 miles. Trinity and believed to be one of only two such houses in Britain; the The south coast provides access to other being Newhouse, Goodrich in numerous water sports facilities Herefordshire. including yachting at Lymington, Beaulieu, Hamble and Poole. John Thorpe was a surveyor and architect who had been a Clerk of The area is renowned for its excellent the Queen’s Works (responsible for schools including Chafyn Grove, small scale improvements to royal Salisbury Cathedral and Godolphin palaces), before leaving the Crown’s in Salisbury, whilst there is also service in 1603 and establishing The Gregg and King Edward VI his private practice. John Thorpe at Southampton; Embley Park, was also reputed to have been the Winchester College and St Swithun’s architect of Nottingham House, are also close by. which was built on the site where Kensington Palace now stands (which itself was built in 1698). The Trinity motif is thought to have In 1742 and 1760, the two Georgian inspired the design of the house with wings were added to the house and a main north/south orientation, both were extensively restored in while at the same time threading the the 1970s and 1990s. Finally, a large avenue through the narrowest point Victorian kitchen and servants’ of the then wet moorland that lay quarters were added to the house between Newhouse and the village of in 1879 by the current owners great Redlynch to the south west. great grandfather and this part of the house was removed in 1972, thereby Newhouse stands on high and dry restoring the house to its 18th ground just south of an historic century shape and design. droving link to the south east from Salisbury in the 16th and early 17th The Jacobean and Georgian interior centuries. At the time of Newhouse’s of the main house has been restored design, the three woodland copses and maintained over the centuries. of Wall Copse, Shearwood and Grove, would have been clearly Adjacent to the main house are the visible from principal southern early 18th century Grade II Listed rooms of the main house across the Clock (Coach) House, stables, then parkland and moorland. These outbuildings and cottage. ancient woodland oak copses still stand today, although their distinct The surrounding parkland forms shape has been disguised by latter an integral part of the setting of day secondary woodland. Newhouse, within which there is a walled garden built during the Newhouse was first sold as a Napoleonic War, which has been ‘mansion house’ by William undergoing gradual restoration. Stockman to Sir Edward Gorges, son of Thomas Gorges, builder of Newhouse is Listed Grade I by Longford Castle. Newhouse and English Heritage for its special the Estate was acquired from Sir architectural and historic interest. Edward Gorges in 1633 by Giles Eyre of Brickworth House, Whiteparish and his descendants have remained at Newhouse until this day. Giles gave Newhouse to his second son Ambrose. Ambrose sold Newhouse to his cousin, Sir Samuel Eyre. In 1817, Harriet Eyre of Newhouse married George Matcham, the nephew of Admiral Lord Nelson, whose mother, Catherine, was Nelson’s favourite younger sister. The marriage also brought about the name change to Eyre-Matcham. The Newhouse Estate The Newhouse Estate is the Up until the last few years the Estate quintessential English Estate. has run an enjoyable shoot focused The fine and historic principal house primarily on the parkland woods and at the northern end of the Estate, is the land and woods at Milkhills Park approached up a long drive and fully Farm. In addition, the Estate holds protected by its own parkland and large herds of principally fallow and woodland, offering complete privacy. roe deer. The stalking across the whole Estate is currently let under licence. As you move south through the Estate, you cover rolling arable and Finally, the land rises to a ridge grassland interspersed with woods on the south west boundary of the and copses. The land flows around Estate where a small farmstead the village of Lover and hamlet of provides a typical New Forest Bohemia, where there are numerous agricultural holding. village paddocks offering potential for alternative uses, subject to The Estate is classically diversified, the necessary planning consents. with residential appeal, commercial Around the fringes, there are groups buildings, farmland and woodland, of farm buildings and individual as well as being of immense barns, some providing support for environmental importance and the agricultural land and others sporting interest. now in commercial use. At the south east end of the Estate lies the magnificent Loosehanger Woods, which has been well managed and provides numerous compartments of both broadleaf and softwood trees. Loosehanger provides considerable environmental and sporting appeal. Lot 1 - Newhouse About 275.96 acres (111.67 hectares) The stunning Grade I Listed Jacobean manor house is approached from the rural lane by a long private drive that rises gently between an avenue of lime and cherry trees. The driveway passes between ponds to a circular driveway at the southern front of the house. The fine front door is flanked by three mullioned and transom windows either side; opening into a magnificent hall with early 18th century staircase with barley sugar balusters. Leading south from the hall lies the morning room with fine fire place, separate cloakroom and a door on to the magnificent double height drawing room with fireplace, ornate plaster work and a beautiful bay window at the southern end looking out over the park and lake. From the hallway, the north wing comprises a magnificent dining room with c18th/19th century panelling and ionic oak columns supporting the fireplace mantel over an arched stone fireplace. The room is decorated with an early 20th century rococo-style plaster ceiling.