# Buckwell Place > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Buckwell_Place > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Buckwell_Place.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckwell_Place > Source revision: 1348782655 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Buckwell Place** (formerly **Herstmonceux Rectory**) is a [country house](/source/English_country_house) within the [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) of [Herstmonceux](/source/Herstmonceux), [East Sussex](/source/East_Sussex), England. It is a privately owned [Grade II* listed building](/source/Grade_II*_listed_building), and is not open to the public. Herstmonceux Rectory was the residence of the theologian [Julius Charles Hare](/source/Julius_Hare_(theologian)).[1] ## History Rev. Robert Hare. of the Hare family who owned nearby [Herstmonceux Castle](/source/Herstmonceux_Castle), built the original wing of the house in 1792 as a rectory for himself. His nephew [Julius Charles Hare](/source/Julius_Hare_(theologian)) later occupied the house and extended it in 1833, constructing a [parlour wing](/source/Parlour) and bedroom above.[2] He also built a domed [conservatory](/source/Conservatory_(greenhouse)) between the original wing and the new parlour wing.[2] Julius Hare was a bibliophile, with a library at the rectory of 20,000 volumes, particularly strong in contemporary German authors. His visitors included [Thomas Carlyle](/source/Thomas_Carlyle), with whom he later fell out.[1][3] Hare's German books were later bequeathed to [Trinity College, Cambridge](/source/Trinity_College,_Cambridge).[4] The writer [Augustus Hare](/source/Augustus_Hare) was adopted by his aunt [Maria Hare](/source/Maria_Hare), the widowed sister-in-law of Julius Hare, and brought up at Lime House, near the rectory. He wrote about his childhood experiences at the rectory in his autobiography, *The Story of My Life* (1896–1900).[5][6] After Julius Hare's death in 1855, the house was occupied by the Rev. [Henry Wellesley](/source/Henry_Wellesley_(1794%E2%80%931866)).[7] Wellesley constructed a service wing to the west in c.1860. It remains a private house today.[8] In 1932, the house was still known as *Herstmonceux Rectory*,[9] but by 1937, was listed as *Buckwell Place*.[10] ## Architecture Buckwell Place consists of the original rectory built by Rev. Robert Hare in 1792, the extensions — including the domed conservatory —- by Julius Hare in 1833 and the service wing built by Rev. Henry Wellesley in c.1860. The architect is unknown, and likely to have been a local builder.[11] The northeast entrance front was constructed in 1792. It has two storeys and four bays. The front door features a [Gibbs surround](/source/Gibbs_surround), set within a curved recess. The southeast garden front is similarly of two storeys and four bays. The southwest front exhibits the parlour wing built in 1833 by Julius Hare, which has a [canted bay window](/source/Bay_window) and [balcony](/source/Balcony) above. To the west of the house lies the range constructed in c.1860 by Rev. Henry Wellesley, with a set of tripartite windows to the ground floor. Between the southeast garden front and the southwest parlour wing, Julius Hare constructed a domed conservatory in 1833 for the display of [ferns](/source/Fern) and other tropical plants.[11] The house retains its original curved staircase, along with the 1833 marble fireplace surround in Julius Hare's library and its bookcases.[11] ## References 1. Hayes, Holly. ["Listed Building Data for Buckwell Place (Herstmonceux, England)"](https://gohistoric.com/places/355252-buckwell-place-herstmonceux). *Go Historic*. Retrieved 2023-02-14. 1. ["Buckwell Place, Herstmonceux - 1043143, Historic England"](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043143). *historicengland.org.uk*. Retrieved 2023-02-14. 1. Distad, N. Merrill. "Hare, Julius Charles (1795–1855)". 12304. 1. Paulin, Roger (2021). ["17. Julius Hare's German books in Trinity College library, Cambridge"](https://books.openedition.org/obp/24395?lang=en). *From Goethe to Gundolf : Essays on German Literature and Culture*. Open Book Publishers. pp. 338–364. 1. Barnes, Malcolm (1985). *Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman*. London: Allen & Unwin. p. 25. ISBN 004920100X. 1. Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) (1896). [*The story of my life*](http://archive.org/details/storymylife00haregoog). London : George Allen. 1. Stuff, Good. ["Buckwell Place, Herstmonceux, East Sussex"](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101043143-buckwell-place-herstmonceux). *britishlistedbuildings.co.uk*. Retrieved 2023-02-14. 1. ["View map: Ordnance Survey, Sussex LVI.10 (Hailsham; Hellingly; Herstmonceux) - Ordnance Survey 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952"](https://maps.nls.uk/view/103672768#zoom=2&lat=6139&lon=10318&layers=BT). *maps.nls.uk*. Retrieved 2023-07-31. 1. ["View map: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey, TQ61 - D (includes: Ashburnham; Dallington; Herstmonceux; Warbleton; Wartling) - Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain, 1945-1969"](https://maps.nls.uk/view/95750297). *maps.nls.uk*. Retrieved 2023-07-31. 1. ["Buckwell Place, Herstmonceux - 1043143 | Historic England"](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1043143). *historicengland.org.uk*. Retrieved 2023-07-31. ## External links - [Photograph of Buckwell Place's stables from Historic England's archive](https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/IOE01/16560/34) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Buckwell Place](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckwell_Place) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckwell_Place?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.