# Stratton Park

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For the park in Colorado Springs in the United States, see [Stratton Park (Colorado)](/source/Stratton_Park_(Colorado)).

**Stratton Park**, in [East Stratton](/source/East_Stratton), [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire), was an [English country house](/source/English_country_house), built on the site of a [grange](/source/Monastic_grange) of [Hyde Abbey](/source/Hyde_Abbey) after the [dissolution of the monasteries](/source/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries);[1] it was purchased with the manor of [Micheldever](/source/Micheldever) in 1546 by [Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton](/source/Thomas_Wriothesley,_1st_Earl_of_Southampton). The last [earl of Southampton](/source/Earl_of_Southampton) made Stratton Park one of his chief seats, and his son-in-law, Sir William Russell,[2] pulled down part of the hamlet and added it to his deer park in the 1660s. The Russell heirs eventually sold the estate in 1801 to [Sir Francis Baring, Bt](/source/Sir_Francis_Baring,_1st_Baronet), of the [Baring banking family](/source/Barings). Baring remodeled the manor house in a [neoclassical style](/source/Neoclassical_style), to designs by [George Dance the Younger](/source/George_Dance_the_Younger), 1803–06,[3]' including an imposing stone [Doric-columned](/source/Doric_order) portico and stuccoed brick main block and wings. The pleasure grounds and landscape park were laid out and planted, starting ca 1803 by [Humphry Repton](/source/Humphry_Repton), and described by [William Cobbett](/source/William_Cobbett), in *Rural Rides: in the counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants*, when Stratton Park held the living of [Micheldever](/source/Micheldever) and included [Micheldever Wood](/source/Micheldever_Wood), which Cobbett said "contains a thousand acres [4 km2], and which is one of the finest oak-woods in England."[4] In the late nineteenth century [Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook](/source/Thomas_Baring,_1st_Earl_of_Northbrook) laid out more formally structured gardens, with hardy plantings by [Gertrude Jekyll](/source/Gertrude_Jekyll).[5] The park has been Grade II registered since 1984.[6]

Most of the Stratton Park house was demolished in 1963 by owner [John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton](/source/John_Baring,_7th_Baron_Ashburton), whose involvement in the demolition of the Baring family's architecturally important banking headquarters in London had earned him the nickname "Basher Baring".[7] Today, all that remains is Dance's stone portico, looming up near, but in no stable relation with, a modernist house by [Stephen Gardiner](/source/Stephen_Gardiner_(architect)) and Christopher Knight, 1963-65.[8] The portico is now a [listed structure](/source/Listed_building) since 1983.[9] Mature specimen trees from the landscape park tower above the present structure.

## References

1. *A History of the County of Hampshire* Volume 3 (1908)

1. See [Earls of Bedford](/source/Duke_of_Bedford).

1. Howard Colvin, *A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840* 3rd ed. 1995: "George Dance".

1. Cobbet, p 167.

1. [Parks and Gardens UK](http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20100914214052/http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/) 2010-09-14 at the Wayback Machine

1. [Kenneth Powell, *Parthenon-style The Grange's facade*. Telegraph.co.uk, 04 Jul 1998 (retrieved 04 Oct 2010)](https://web.archive.org/web/20160226170021/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4714698/Parthenon-style-The-Granges-facade.html)

1. [Nikolaus Pevsner](/source/Nikolaus_Pevsner) and David Lloyd, *Hampshire and the Isle of Wight* Buildings of England series (Yale University Press, New Haven and London) 1967.

- ['Parishes: East Stratton', *A History of the County of Hampshire* Volume 3 (1908), pp. 399-400](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42012) Date accessed: 17 March 2007.
- [East Stratton: Stratton Park](http://www.astoft.co.uk/eaststratton.htm)
- [Lost Heritage - a memorial to the lost country houses of England: Stratton Park](http://www.lostheritage.org.uk/houses/lh_hampshire_strattonpark.html)
- Jane Brown, *Gardens of a Golden Afternoon: The Story of a Partnership: Edward Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll*.

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