Field Place is a Grade I listed house in Warnham, West Sussex, England.[1] It is the birthplace of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, born there in 1792.
The house dates back to the thirteenth and fourteenth-centuries.[2] It has been restored to the state it was in when Shelley lived there.[2]
Field Place was built in about 1353 by Richard Felde, and this part is now the east wing.[3] It was later owned by the Mychel family who had added the south wing by 1525.[3] In 1729, it was bought by Edward Shelley.[3] On his death, the house was inherited by his nephew Sir Timothy Shelley (1753–1844), and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was his eldest son.[3] The farm buildings and much of the land is now owned separately.[3] Percy Bysshe Shelley spent his youth at Field Place, but never lived there as an adult.[4] His son Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet (1819–1889) inherited the property.[4]
G N Charrington, who had been a tenant, acquired the property in 1929, and restored the gardens by 1949.[3] In 1982, Kenneth Pritchard Jones bought the house and restored it.[3]
References
- ^ Historic England. "Field Place (1026916)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
- ^ a b "Field Place". romantic-circles.org. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Field Place". Parksandgardens.org. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
- ^ a b "The Early History of Warnham" (PDF). warnhamsociety.org. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
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