OTHER ESTATES.
At Castlebar Hill Richard
Barenger in 1423 held c. 90 a. of copyhold,
including 53 a. called Absdonsland, to which
Simon Barenger was admitted in 1560. (fn. 1)
Absdonsland, then 72 a., passed in turn to Anne
Perrott and her son Thomas, who surrendered it
in 1574 to Christopher Rythe, (fn. 2) by whom it was
settled in 1585 on Joan Southcott, widow. (fn. 3)
Edward More surrendered it in 1627 to his wife
Philippa, who settled it in 1641 on his son John. (fn. 4)
The estate was acquired from George and
Rebecca Lamplowe by Sir William Bateman, the
purchaser of other property in Ealing, in 1650
and descended in 1664 from Bateman's widow to
his son Sir William, (fn. 5) whose youngest son Charles
settled it on his son William in 1719. (fn. 6) It descended in turn to William Bateman (d. c. 1797)
and his children William (d. 1820) and Mary
Bateman (d. 1833), all three of them lunatics, (fn. 7)
and included 160 a. in Ealing when it was
disputed among Mary's heirs. (fn. 8) Francis Swinden
bought out other claimants in 1854, with a view
to leasing the estate for building. (fn. 9) The threestoreyed mansion, called Castlebar House or
CASTLEBAR PARK in 1824, (fn. 10) stood on the
south side of Castlebar Hill. First mentioned in
1641, (fn. 11) it was difficult to let by 1818 (fn. 12) and
dilapidated in 1855, when Swinden allowed for
its demolition in a lease. (fn. 13) Among tenants were
Isabella Cunningham, countess of Glencairn
(d. 1796), in 1806, (fn. 14) Lt.-Gen. Sir Frederick
Augustus Wetherall (1754-1842) in 1818, and
Sir Jonathan Miles in 1819. (fn. 15)
A forerunner of Castle Hill Lodge, north of
Castlebar Hill, was sold by Charles Gould in
1763 to Capt. James Cusack. In 1764 it was
acquired by John Scott, (fn. 16) who combined 5 freehold closes and 10 a. leased from the Isleworth
charity trustees (fn. 17) to form an estate of c. 27 a. The
house had been enlarged or rebuilt by c. 1773, (fn. 18)
when the estate was bought by Francis Burdett.
During the tenure of the Burdetts, Stebbing
Shaw (1762-1802), topographer, was tutor there
to the politician Sir Francis Burdett, Bt. (1770-
1844). (fn. 19) In 1791 the house was bought by Henry
Beaufoy (d. 1795), who improved it and whose
brother sold it in 1795 to Mrs. Maria FitzHerbert
(1756-1837), (fn. 20) morganatic wife of the prince of
Wales. (fn. 21) She sold it in 1801 to Edward Augustus,
Duke of Kent (1767-1820), (fn. 22) who called it
CASTLE HILL LODGE and commissioned
improvements by Wyatt (fn. 23) but lived elsewhere
from 1812. (fn. 24) After attempted sales in 1820 and
1827 the estate was bought in 1829 by Gen. Sir
F. A. Wetherall, the duke's former aide-decamp. (fn. 25) The general's son, Adm. Frederick
Augustus Wetherall (d. 1856), was succeeded by
his son Frederick Henry Pakenham Wetherall, (fn. 26)
the house being leased from 1856 to Henry
Austin. (fn. 27) The property was called the Kent
House estate in 1870, when F. H. P. Wetherall
sold the house to Thomas Harrison and the rest
of the land to Alfred Prest, Ebenezer J. Pearce,
and Charles Jones, for building. (fn. 28) Some of the
land was later bought by Harrison, who sold it in
1880 to the British Land Co. (fn. 29)
Two-storeyed and in the Grecian style, Castle
Hill Lodge was long and low in 1816, when its
principal, north, front featured an Ionic portico
beneath a pediment. Lacking woodland and
water, it was considered a pleasant but not a firstclass seat. (fn. 30) Fittings were sold in 1820 and further
materials were removed in 1827. (fn. 31) No house
apparently survived in 1840 but a new one had
been built by 1845. (fn. 32) As Kent House it was still
occupied by Henry Gibbons in 1890 and 1908, (fn. 33)
becoming St. David's Home in 1918. (fn. 34)
Gen. Wetherall, tenant of the Batemans' seat
until 1818, (fn. 35) in 1817 bought the lease and in 1824
the freehold of CASTLEBAR HOUSE, east of
Castlebar Hill and newly built in 1790 when
leased by John Wey to Richard Meux (d. 1813),
brewer. (fn. 36) In 1840 Wetherall held c. 47 a. of
freehold, copyhold, and leasehold, (fn. 37) including
Castle Hill Lodge. The residue passed to his son
Gen. Sir George Augustus Wetherall (1788-
1868), who devised it to his sons Maj.-Gen. Sir
Edward Wetherall (d. 1869) and the Revd. A. W.
Wetherall, the second of whom intended to sell it
in 1870. (fn. 38) Castlebar House belonged to Mr.
Bartholomew in 1897, when it was acquired as a
Benedictine monastery. It was used as a girls'
school successively by Visitation nuns, by
nuns of the Holy Child Jesus 1901-10, and by
Augustinian nuns 1912-15. In 1976 it was a
Roman Catholic men's club and youth club. The
principal front of the classical 18th-century
house had faced the garden and only three bays
had faced the road until c. 1830, when an
extension by two bays gave an asymmetrical
appearance. (fn. 39)
John Twyford settled three customary tenements and two crofts on his daughter Isabel and
her husband Richard Hayward in 1456. (fn. 40) Their
daughter Isabel married Thomas Clavell, who
held most of the estate in 1492. (fn. 41) It descended to
his grandson John Clavell, on whom his greatgrandmother Isabel Hayward settled a homestead and croft in 1518 (fn. 42) and whose coheirs in
1547 were his three sisters Agnes Alderton, later
Hore, Elizabeth Cogges, and Alice, later wife of
John Living. (fn. 43) Following Elizabeth's death without issue, her sisters sold the estate of c. 160 a. in
1584 to William, later Sir William, Fleetwood,
recorder of London, (fn. 44) who in 1588 sold it to
Edward Boteler, (fn. 45) who as Sir Edward Boteler of
Birchanger (Essex), settled copyhold property on
his son John and his wife Jane in 1608. (fn. 46) Probably
it was the house and 156 a. called Botelers farm
near Drayton Green and Drayton Lane, which
they surrendered in 1610 to the lawyer John, later
Sir John, Walter (1566-1630). (fn. 47) Sir John's
youngest son David was admitted in 1635 (fn. 48) and
lived in DRAYTON HOUSE at the north end
of Drayton Green. (fn. 49) The estate descended to Sir
William Walter, Bt. (d. 1694). In 1698, in
accordance with his will, Botelers farm was
settled on his second wife Mary and their son
Robert, later Sir Robert (d. 1731). (fn. 50) It passed to
John Mead, to his widow Jane, and then to his
son John, whose grandson Grantham Mead,
merchant of London, was admitted in 1712. (fn. 51)
Mead surrendered Botelers farm in 1747 to King
Gould, (fn. 52) who held at least 225 a. of copyhold and
Pitshanger manor at his death in 1756. His son
Charles (fn. 53) sold Botelers farm with Pitshanger to
Thomas Gurnell in 1765 but retained land west
of Northfield Avenue and a house at Little
Ealing, (fn. 54) which may however have been Coldhall
manor house and leased out. (fn. 55)
PLACE HOUSE, Little Ealing Lane, was
reputedly sequestrated as recusants' property
during the Interregnum (fn. 56) and had nine hearths in
1664. (fn. 57) It belonged to John Loving (d. 1693) and
descended to his son and namesake, who successfully asserted his claim to a pew in Ealing church
and his independence of Coldhall manor in 1693. (fn. 58)
In 1729 Loving sold the house to Sir Richard
Ellis, Bt. (d. 1742), (fn. 59) whose widow Sarah sold 33
a. of copyhold to King Gould before her marriage
in 1745 to Sir Francis Dashwood, Bt., later Lord
Le Despenser (d. 1781). (fn. 60) The Dashwoods either
sold the house or let it on a 1,000-year lease in
1746 to Richard, later Sir Richard, Lyttelton,
who in 1760 with his wife Rachel, dowager
duchess of Bridgwater, assigned the lease to
Francis Greville, Earl Brooke and earl of
Warwick (d. 1773), (fn. 61) who assigned it in 1765 to
Lord James Manners. (fn. 62) In 1765 and 1777 the
tenant of at least part of the estate was the statesman Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth and
later marquess of Bath (1734-96). (fn. 63) Manners
sold the estate in 1789 to Cuthbert Fisher, (fn. 64)
whose widow was owner in 1811, when the estate
had been renamed EALING PARK. (fn. 65) Mrs.
Fisher was succeeded by 1824 by her husband's
devisee Jacob Jeddere, who took the name
Fisher (fn. 66) and had died by 1834. (fn. 67) In 1840 Ealing
Park belonged to the surgeon William Lawrence,
later a baronet (1783-1867), whose 89-a. estate
lay mainly between Boston Road, Little Ealing
Lane, and Ealing Road (fn. 68) and whose wife Louisa
Trevor (d. 1855), a leading social figure, made the
gardens. (fn. 69) After her death Ealing Park was leased
by 1863 to J. Wainright, and then to James
Budgett, before its sale by Sir Trevor Lawrence,
Bt. (d. 1913). (fn. 70) Acquired in part in 1882 by the
British Land Co., (fn. 71) much of the grounds had
been built over by 1898, when the house was a
convent of the Ladies of Nazareth; (fn. 72) by 1912 it
was a convent of the Sisters of Charity. (fn. 73) Built in
the late 18th century and soon extended, the
house is two-storeyed and of nine bays, with a
pedimented central projection and, on the east
front, a single-storeyed Ionic colonnade. (fn. 74)
The ELM GROVE estate, earlier called Hicks
on the Heath, lay on the west of Ealing common,
of which it may once have been part. A copyhold
toft and 20 a. of woodland called Hickes atte
Hethe, late of Richard atte Hethe, were leased in
1458 to John Merryweather and others, who
immediately assigned them to Thomas and
Henry Frowyk. (fn. 75) The estate apparently descended with Gunnersbury until Henry Frowyk's
death in 1520, when it reverted to the lord,
who farmed it in 1520 to John Basset. (fn. 76) In
1578 Christopher Rythe held Hickes atte Hethe,
which he surrendered in 1584 to Joan Southcott,
with Abdonsland. (fn. 77) It belonged in 1613 to
Edward More (fn. 78) and in 1667 to Thomas Talbot, (fn. 79)
who surrendered it in 1670 to Sarah Baker of
Holborn. (fn. 80) Robert Newdigate, admitted in
1677, (fn. 81) was succeeded in 1684 by Sir William
Trumbull (1639-1716), Secretary of State, who
leased it c. 1688 to the lawyer and politician Dr.,
later Sir Charles, Hedges (d. 1714) (fn. 82) and sold it in
1696 to Samuel Cox. (fn. 83) In 1721 the Hon. George
Watson was owner or occupier, (fn. 84) between 1730
and 1753 it belonged to Charles Scholes, (fn. 85) and in
1764 William Turner surrendered it to Anne
Cotesworth. (fn. 86) She surrendered it in 1769 to
William Birch, (fn. 87) who had let it by 1777 to Dr.
John Egerton, bishop of Durham (1721-87), to
whom he surrendered it next year. (fn. 88) The bishop's
son John Egerton sold it in 1787 to Frederick
Augustus Barnard, (fn. 89) who sold it in 1795 to
George Kinnaird, Lord Kinnaird (d. 1805).
Kinnaird devised it to his wife Elizabeth (d.
1806), who devised it to their daughters, several
of whom were minors. Under an Act of 1808 the
estate, described as the mansion called Elm
Grove and 35 a., was sold (fn. 90) to Spencer Perceval
(1762-1812), prime minister, on whose assassination it was held by his widow Jane, who later
married Sir Henry Carr. In 1821 the estate was
settled on Lady Carr and her son Spencer
Perceval (d. 1859), (fn. 91) and on Lady Carr's death in
1864 it passed to her daughter-in-law Anna
Elizabeth Perceval, who enfranchised it. (fn. 92) The
house was occupied by Dr. W. R. Vines as a boys'
school c. 1861, (fn. 93) by the Revd. Charles Scott in
1864, (fn. 94) and by the Royal India Asylum 1870-
92. (fn. 95) After Leopold de Rothschild had bought
the estate for building, Elm Grove was demolished in 1894. (fn. 96) The house, first mentioned in
1696, (fn. 97) was improved by Frederick Barnard (fn. 98)
and was a large, plain, stuccoed building of three
storeys and attics. (fn. 99)
From 1734 Thomas Barratt of Old Brentford
(d. 1762) (fn. 1) was building up a substantial copyhold
estate on both sides of Boston and Ealing roads,
mainly from open field strips. In 1760 he settled
some on his daughter Anne and her husband
Thomas Edwards, later Sir Thomas Edwardes,
Bt. (d. 1790), and by will dated 1760 left the rest
to Anne and her issue. On Sir Thomas's death all
descended to his daughter Ellen Hester Mary
(d. 1836) (fn. 2) and in 1794 was settled on her and her
husband John Thomas Hope. (fn. 3) In 1840 J. T.
Hope held 155 a., mainly at Brentford but some
north of Haven Green. (fn. 4) Part was enfranchised in
1849 and 1851, when the tenant for life was
Frederick Hope. (fn. 5)
The adjoining houses and estates of EALING
HOUSE and EALING GROVE, east of St.
Mary's Road, originated in the freehold and
copyhold capital messuage and house held in
1593 by Joan, widow of William Frost. (fn. 6) Following her marriage to Matthew Grey, Joan sold her
estate in 1598 to Thomas Soame, (fn. 7) who was
admitted in 1605 to the copyhold estate consisting
of Crowchmans tenement, Cooper's homestead,
and 55 a. (fn. 8) A second house already stood on an
adjoining orchard by 1616, when a wall was
erected around it, (fn. 9) suggesting, with later
evidence, (fn. 10) that it was the future Ealing House
and that Crowchmans was the future Ealing
Grove. The two houses probably descended in
the Soame family until the Interregnum, when
they were divided.
Ealing House, already so called, and c. 40 a.,
including land leased from the rector, were sold
in 1657 by John Wadlowe and other Londoners
to Sir John Barkstead, (fn. 11) whose widow in 1663
surrendered the estate to Nicholas Bonfoy,
merchant of London. (fn. 12) On the death of Bonfoy's
widow, their son Hugh was admitted in 1691 and
surrendered it to Richard Lascelles, goldsmith of
London. (fn. 13) In 1715 William Kingsford and
Joseph Denys sold the estate to the lawyer Sir
James Montagu (1666-1723) (fn. 14) whose widow sold
it in 1724 to Sir Thomas Gery, master in
Chancery. (fn. 15) Gery's widow sold it to Nathaniel
Oldham of Holborn, (fn. 16) who conveyed it in 1735 to
Thomas Bale, (fn. 17) who sold it in 1747 to Hugh
Bethel. Hugh's brother Alderman Slingsby
Bethel was admitted in 1748 (fn. 18) and sold it in 1751
to Richard Coope, (fn. 19) who surrendered it in 1753
to Lt.-Gen. John Huske (1692?-1761). Huske,
who died there, (fn. 20) devised it to William Adair,
who devised it in 1780 to trustees. (fn. 21) In 1803 it
was acquired for Anne, dowager countess of
Galloway, who released it in 1813 to Col. Patrick
Douglas. (fn. 22) He sold it in 1817, probably to Mason
Gerard Streetford, (fn. 23) and in 1830 William
Johnson surrendered it to his brother John
(d. 1848), who devised it to his widow for sale.
Bought in 1851 by Ambrose Brown of London
and Robert Shorter of Ealing, (fn. 24) it belonged in
1860 to the Ragged School trust. (fn. 25) Ealing House
had a gatehouse by 1657 and was of brick,
containing two storeys with projecting mullioned
windows and attics in a steeply pitched roof, in
1795, before alterations. (fn. 26)
Ealing Grove, formerly Crowchmans tenement, adjoined Ealing House to the north and
Grove Road to the south. It was leased from 1608
to Sir William Fleetwood (fn. 27) and later to John
Maynard. In 1657 Sir Thomas Soame and his
eldest son Stephen surrendered it, another house,
and 27 a. to Joseph and Sarah Wadlowe, who
surrendered it in 1675 to Robert Welstead,
goldsmith of London. (fn. 28) The soldier Richard
Savage, Earl Rivers, lived at Ealing Grove for
several years and died there in 1712, (fn. 29) leaving
it to his illegitimate daughter Bessy, wife of
Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein, earl of Rochford,
owner in 1722. (fn. 30) Their son Richard Savage
Nassau sold it in 1746, probably in trust for Sir
Hildebrand Jacob. (fn. 31) Mary Swift and Amy Peters
were admitted to the copyhold estate in 1750 and
Capt. Edward Hughes, R.N., in 1754; Hughes
and Charles Guild conveyed the estate in 1755 to
Joseph Gulston, M.P. (d. 1766), (fn. 32) whose son
Joseph (1744?-86), the collector, sold Ealing
Grove to George Spencer, duke of Marlborough
(d. 1817), in 1775. (fn. 33) It was bought from him by
John Campbell, duke of Argyll (d. 1806), who
sold it in 1791 to James Baillie (d. 1793). Baillie
devised Ealing Grove to his wife Colin for life,
but she immediately conveyed it to their eldest
son Alexander. (fn. 34) The tenant from 1799 to 1802
was Edward Harley, earl of Oxford (d. 1848). (fn. 35)
Under an Act of 1805 the estate, described as a
mansion house and 64 a., (fn. 36) was sold by 1811 to
Charles Wyatt, still the owner in 1845. (fn. 37) The
house was converted into an Italianate villa, at
great expense, by Joseph Gulston the younger (fn. 38)
and c. 1800 was a three-storeyed classical mansion
of nine bays, with a pedimented central projection, set among trees. (fn. 39)