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Shardeloes is a large 18th-century country house located one mile west of Amersham in Buckinghamshire, England (grid reference). A previous manor house on the site was demolished and the present building constructed between 1758 and 1766 [1] for William Drake, the Member of Parliament for Amersham. Shardeloes is a Grade I listed building. [1]
Jan 20, 2018 · Shardeloes is a magnificent Grade I listed building of special architectural and historic interest set in around 50 acres of parkland grounds overlooking a lake and Misbourne valley on the edge of Amersham Old Town. The present mansion was once the ancestral home of the Tyrwhitt-Drake family.
EXPLORE SHARDELOES. Set within 550 acres of stunning rolling Chiltern Hills countryside, and in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), Shardeloes Farm has been welcoming riding enthusiasts of every level and ability for over 30 years.
- Shardeloes Before The Arrival of The Drake Family in The Seventeenth Century
- The Early Drake Family – 17th Century to Late 18th Century
- Construction of The Present House Under William Drake
- The Tyrwhitt-Drakes – Late Eighteenth Century to 1939
- Shardeloes Since World War 2
The Misbourne Valley has yielded evidence of occupation during thousands of years. Finds have included flints from various periods of the Stone Age. In the 1980s, there were Iron Age and Roman finds from the construction of the Amersham by-pass and from an archaeological excavation at Mantles Green. Field walking has also yielded Roman coins, brick...
From the early seventeenth to the mid twentieth century, Amersham was dominated by the Drake family of Shardeloes. In his introductory note on the Drakes, Julian Hunt states that they “increased their family fortune by securing valuable sinecures and marrying wealthy heiresses”. The Drakes came from Ashe in Devon, via Esher in Surrey, and some have...
This section on the construction of the present Shardeloes House and the renovation of the grounds of the estate is based on a presentation in the Amersham Museum by Edward Copisarow of Shardeloes House, and on further research by him. Most of the work to rebuild Shardeloes took place under William Drake (1723-96), who went on the Grand Tour from 1...
When William Drake the elder died in 1796, he was succeeded by Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt-Drake (1749-1810), who inherited Tyrwhitt property in Lincolnshire and elsewhere when the male line in that family died out. To acknowledge the inheritance, he incorporated the name Tyrwhitt within his own. Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt-Drake and his brother John Drake mar...
Shardeloes continued to be used for a while as maternity home after the War, but was later empty and was threatened with demolition. In the 1950s, an average of one stately home was being demolished each week and Shardeloes was earmarked for demolition in 1957. Developers had planned to re-use the bricks to build many new homes on the site. The new...
Shardeloes has an 18th-century landscape park and woodland, designed by Humphry Repton in 1793. The site originally occupied 390 hectares, though the surrounding areas of parkland have largely been returned to agriculture.
The Equestrian Centre at Shardeloes Farm is a long established family run business boasting 530 acres of rolling countryside and spectacular views nestled in an area of outstanding natural beauty above the picturesque town of Old Amersham in the beautiful Chiltern Hills.
Shardeloes is a Grade I listed building. The Equestrian Centre & Livery Yard at Shardeloes is a household name. Boasting over 500 acres of land space in the scenic Old Amersham town and complimented with unique views, this farm is indeed a place to visit.
