Horsley Towers | |
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Type | House |
Location | East Horsley, Surrey |
Coordinates | 51°15′55″N 0°25′38″W / 51.2654°N 0.4272°W |
Built | 1834, 1855-60 |
Architect | Charles Barry, William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace |
Architectural style(s) | Tudor Revival, Romanesque Revival |
Governing body | De Vere (hotel operator) |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Horsley Towers |
Designated | 14 June 1967 |
Reference no. | 1294810 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Entrance Walls, Gardeners Cottage and Horsley Towers Cottage |
Designated | 25 November 1985 |
Reference no. | 1029424 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Pavilion 100 yards northwest of cloisters of Horsley Towers |
Designated | 25 November 1985 |
Reference no. | 1029425 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Wall and Pavilion 300 yards southwest of Horsley Towers |
Designated | 25 November 1985 |
Reference no. | 1188298 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Walls to former kitchen garden of Horsley Towers |
Designated | 25 November 1985 |
Reference no. | 1377818 |
Horsley Towers, East Horsley, Surrey, England is a country house dating from the 19th century. The house was designed by Charles Barry for the banker William Currie. The East Horsley estate was later sold to William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace who undertook two major expansions of the house to his own designs. Lovelace lived at the Towers with his wife, Ada, daughter of Lord Byron, a pioneering mathematician, friend of Charles Babbage and described as among the first computer programmers. In 1919, the Towers was purchased by Thomas Sopwith, the aviator and businessman, who named his plane, the Hawker Horsley, after his home. Now a hotel, wedding and conference venue set in parkland with a total area of about 50 acres, Horsley Towers is a Grade II* listed building.