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Description: | Uplands House is situated at the top of North Hill near the crossroads at the top of Park Lane, Fareham. It was built over 200 years ago for Samuel Jellicoe, a member of the famous naval family who also had interests in the iron mill works at Funtley. He had done well out of the wars with America and unlike his business partner Henry Cort who had been financially ruined, had money to invest in property.
Standing at the top of the hill the house must have commanded superb views before the area was developed. It also had an artificial lake with an ornamental garden in the middle. The gardens at one time required seven gardeners. Part of the grounds were later occupied by Price's School.
In the 1850's, Captain John Beardmore owned the property and he was responsible for amassing a fine collection of arms and armour which was kept in the ballroom. In the 1900's, much of the collection was auctioned at Christie's and a good deal of it found its way into the British Museum. Captain Beardmore had financial and sporting interests in shipping and yachting.
Later occupants were the Waterlow family and John Norton, a director of the Cunard Shipping Company. The building later underwent various alterations structurally.
Uplands later became a home for the elderly.
References:
1. Emery, John. 1985. Fareham in old picture postcards, p.36.
2. Brown, Ron. 1983. Fareham of yesteryear, p. 35.
3. Burton, Lesley and Musselwhite, Brian. 1991. An illustrated history of Fareham, p. 13. | 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: | The News, Portsmouth | Subjects: | Price's School hill building Samuel Jellicoe Park Lane street Captain Beardmore lake house collection British Museum North Hill Funtley school Christie's armour Waterlow Uplands House arms John Norton Henry Cort Cunard Shipping Company garden | Temporal: | start=1993-03-01; end=1993-03-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | The News, Portsmouth | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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