{{Short description|Former country house in Southern England}}{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}{{Infobox historic site | name = Arborfield Hall | location = Arborfield | locmapin = Berkshire | coordinates = {{coord| 51.406|N| 0.926|W}} | built = 13th century | rebuilt = 1603, 1955 | built_for = Bullock family | demolished = 1832, 1837 | image = Arborfield Hall.jpeg | caption = Arborfield Hall c. 1850 }}
'''Arborfield Hall''' was a large country house on the banks of the River Loddon near the village of Arborfield in Berkshire.
==History== The site originally contained a manor house, which was occupied by the Bullock family from the early 13th century.<ref name=berkshire>{{cite web|url=http://www.berkshirehistory.com/castles/arborfield_hall.html|title=Arborfield Hall|publisher=Berkshire History|accessdate=29 August 2016}}</ref> This was acquired by Edmund Standen in 1589 and passed to his son, William Standen, who rebuilt the house in the Jacobean style in 1603;<ref name=berkshire/> a stable block was added in 1654.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp200-203|title='Parishes: Arborfield', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page |year= 1923|pages= 200–203|publisher= British History Online |accessdate= 21 August 2016}}</ref> The manor house was sold to Pelsant Reeves, a Master in Chancery, in 1730 and it remained in the Reeves family until a descendant, George Dawson, demolished it in 1832.<ref name=berkshire/>
George Dawson commissioned a new hall in 1837 but sold it to Sir John Conroy, Controller of the Household of the Duchess of Kent, in 1842.<ref name=berkshire/> The new hall was bought by Thomas Hargreaves, a businessman who became High Sheriff of Berkshire, in 1855 and it remained in the Hargreaves family until 1926.<ref name=berkshire/> The hall was then bought at auction by the Allsebrook family.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arborfieldhistory.org.uk/properties_hall.htm|title=Arborfield Hall|publisher=Arborfield History|accessdate=29 August 2016}}</ref>
During the Second World War, the hall was requisitioned by the Royal Air Force. It was then acquired by the University of Reading and demolished in 1955.<ref name=berkshire/>
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Category:Country houses in Berkshire Category:Borough of Wokingham Category:Jacobethan architecture Category:Demolished buildings and structures in Berkshire Category:English country houses destroyed in the 20th century