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Description: | Described in 1882 as a small mansion erected within the past five years,' and pictured here before the extensions of 1887 which added a tower and other features.
In the 1860s it was even smaller, being then called Grayshott Farm and described as a two-storeyed stone and brick house with small low rooms, windows with diamond panes and doors with bolts and bars'. It was here in 1867 that Alfred Tennyson and his family rented rooms for about a year.
Joseph Whitaker of Palermo bought the Wishanger Estate in 1884 for one of his sons, Alexander Ingham Whitaker, who lived here until 1927.
More recently it has become a Health Fitness Retreat, for which Whitaker's motto in Latin over his front door seems entirely appropriate: Pax Intrantibus on enteringSalus Exeuntibus on leaving.
(This print is in possession of the Whitaker family) | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | John Owen Smith | Subjects: | Alfred Lord Tennyson house Joseph Whitaker Alexander Ingham Whitaker | Temporal: | start=1882-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | John Owen Smith | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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