Alvediston Manor, Alvediston, Wiltshire, England is an 18th-century house. From 1968 until his death in 1977, it was the home of the former prime minister Anthony Eden. The manor is a Grade II listed building.
Alvediston Manor | |
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Type | House |
Location | Alvediston, Wiltshire |
Coordinates | 51°00′41″N 2°02′07″W / 51.0114°N 2.0352°W |
Built | c.1750 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | The Manor, Alvediston |
Designated | 6 January 1966 |
Reference no. | 1130703 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Walls, gates and gate piers to the front of Alvediston Manor |
Designated | 27 July 1985 |
Reference no. | 1130704 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Garages at Alvediston Manor |
Designated | 27 July 1985 |
Reference no. | 1318669 |
Location of Alvediston Manor in Wiltshire |
The manor house at Alvediston dates from the mid-18th century.[1] Nikolaus Pevsner, in his Buildings of England, notes that the house is "of brick, in a stone county".[2] It is of two storeys and is five bays wide and stands in the centre of the village.[1] In 1968, the house was bought by Anthony Eden, using funds from the sale of his memoirs.[3] His wife, Clarissa, designed the garden and Eden kept a small herd of Hereford cattle at the farm he purchased at the same time.[a][5] In 1975, his last volume of memoirs, Another World, was written at Alvediston. Eden died at the house on 14 January 1977 and is buried in the village churchyard.[6]
Alvediston is a Grade II Listed building,[1] with the garages,[7] and the garden walls, which Pevsner noted were "nicely curved",[2] and the gates and gate piers having separate Grade II listings.[8]