Highgrove House is in Doughton, near Tetbury in the county of Gloucestershire in South West England. Built in the late 18th century, Highgrove and its estate were owned by various families until it was purchased in 1980 by the Duchy of Cornwall. The Prince of Wales remodelled the Georgian house with neo-classical additions in 1987. The house is noted for its extensive gardens which receive more than 30,000 visitors a year.
About Highgrove House in brief
Highgrove House is in Doughton, near Tetbury in the county of Gloucestershire in South West England. Built in the late 18th century, Highgrove and its estate were owned by various families until it was purchased in 1980 by the Duchy of Cornwall from Maurice Macmillan. The Prince of Wales remodelled the Georgian house with neo-classical additions in 1987. The house is noted for its extensive gardens which receive more than 30,000 visitors a year. The duchy manages the estate and the nearby DuchY Home Farm. Gatcombe Park, the country residence of the Prince of. Wales’s sister, Anne, Princess Royal, is six miles away between the villages of Minchinhampton and Avening. Several people have been arrested near of HighGrove since the Prince. of Wales’s occupation, including two French journalists and a photographer from The Sun. A 1. 5 nautical mile aerial exclusion zone for civilian aircraft and microlights was imposed over Highgroves in 1991. The estate itself came to the family through the marriage in 1771 of Josiah Paul Tippetts later Paul with Mary Clark, whose father Robert was the local squire. It belonged to Paul’s descendants until 1860. The Crawley-Boevey Baronetcy was created on 22 January 1784. The family had inherited Flaxley Abbey in 1727, which was their seat until 1960. The Duke of Cornwall, Prince Charles, was subsequently appointed a tenant for life of the estate.
He was subsequently made a tenant of HighgroVE House, and the house was stripped out and painted in preparation for their redecoration in their swimming pool. In August 1980 the estate was purchased for a figure believed to be between £800,000 and £1,000,000 with funds raised for its purchase. It is one of several designated sites proscribed under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 that are protected by law from criminal trespass, a high stone wall surrounds the estate, and two public footpaths that ran close to the house were moved in 1983 for security reasons. It was sold again in 1864 to a barrister, William Yatman, who rebuilt the medieval spire of Tetbury church in honour of his son, and paid for the rehanging of the church bells in 1891. At the time of its sale Highgroove was described as a ‘distinguished Georgian house standing in superb parkland in superb huntland’ and with nine bedrooms and bathrooms with nine bathrooms. In 2006 Prince Michael of Kent bought nearby Nether Lypiatt Manor, although he sold it in 2006. The estate was put up for sale by the Conservative politician and businessman Maurice MacMillan, the son of former Prime Minister Harold Macmill an, for £730,000 in 1980. It has been the subject of several books and television programmes, including ‘The Prince’s Garden’.
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