Bishopstrow House

Bishopstrow House
General information
Location	Bishopstrow, Wiltshire, England
Coordinates	51°11′52″N 2°8′54″W / 51.19778°N 2.14833°W / 51.19778; -2.14833
Management	Longleat Hotel Group
Design and construction
Architect	John Pinch the elder

Bishopstrow House, currently occupied by the Bishopstrow House Hotel, is a late-Georgian English country house standing near the B3414 (Salisbury road) in the parish of Bishopstrow, about a mile east of Warminster, Wiltshire.

History

A manor house was built at Bishopstrow in the late 18th century, between the Salisbury road and the River Wylye, but this was destroyed by fire in 1817. The present-day house was then begun on the north side of the road, nearer to the escarpment of Salisbury Plain,^[1] and was completed by John Pinch the elder in 1821.^[2][3] The gardens of the earlier house were retained and are linked to the new site by a tunnel under the road.^[4]

In 1950 the house was bought by W. Keith Neal, a firearms collector and in 1976 it was purchased by Kurt Schiller, who the next year turned it into a ten-bedroom hotel. It has since been extended to provide more rooms.^[1] In 1988 the hotel was bought by the Blandy family, owners of the five-star Reid's Hotel and winery in Madeira.^[1] In 1995 it was again sold; in 2001 it became part of the Von Essen hotels group, and in 2011 part of the Longleat Hotel Group.^[1]

The house is set in grounds of some twenty-seven acres. As of 2001 it had twenty-four double bedrooms, six suites, and two family rooms.^[5] The River Wylye runs through the grounds, and a summerhouse^[6] and a boathouse^[7] stand alongside it. The grounds also contain two ancient burial mounds: a long barrow^[8] and a bowl barrow.^[9]

References

External links

• Official site