Alvediston Manor

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
Type	House
Location	Alvediston, Wiltshire
Coordinates	51.0114°N 2.0352°W / 51.0114; -2.0352
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

History and description

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]

Footnotes

1. Clarissa Eden recorded her husband's pride in becoming President of the Hereford Herd Book Society; "He was always able to pick out a good animal for stud. They all looked the same to me".^[4]