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Trent Park
Trent Park is an English country house in north London, accompanied by its former extensive grounds. The original great house, along with several statues and other structures within the grounds, such as the Orangery, are Grade II listed buildings. The site is designated as Metropolitan Green Belt, lies within a conservation area, and is also included at Grade II within the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.
Until 2012, the house and adjacent buildings constituted the Trent Park campus of Middlesex University. The campus hosted the performing arts, teacher education, humanities, product design and engineering, television production, and biological science departments, as well as the Flood Hazard Research Centre. The campus was vacated in October 2012.
The parkland extends to approximately 320 hectares (3.2 km2) and has been known as the Trent Country Park since 1973. The park includes a sports ground, Southgate Hockey Centre. Previously, there was an indoor tennis court that was attended by royalty. This later became a sports hall when the building was converted into a college of education.
The Trent Park site was purchased by a developer who received the necessary permits in October 2017 to construct 262 residential units. The site will also include a museum on the two lower floors of the mansion. While the university campus buildings were removed, the historic buildings, gardens and landscape were retained.
Trent Park dates back to the fourteenth century when it was a part of Enfield Chase, one of Henry IV's hunting grounds. In 1777 George III leased the site to Sir Richard Jebb, his favourite doctor, as a reward for treating the King's younger brother, the then Duke of Gloucester. Jebb, or possibly George III, named the estate Trent, because the treatment took place in Trento. Jebb subsequently acquired the freehold interest in the house and on his death it was sold to Lord Cholmondeley.
In about 1836 the house was bought by the banker David Bevan for his son Robert Cooper Lee Bevan on his marriage to Lady Agneta Yorke. Robert Bevan built Christ Church, Cockfosters in 1838 to provide a suitable place of worship for the district.
The author and researcher Nesta Webster (nee Bevan) was born at Trent Park in 1876.
In 1909 the estate was sold to Sir Edward Sassoon, father of Philip Sassoon (cousin of the poet Siegfried Sassoon). Sir Philip Sassoon inherited the estate in 1912 upon his father's death and went on to entertain many notable guests at Trent Park, including Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill.
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Trent Park
Trent Park is an English country house in north London, accompanied by its former extensive grounds. The original great house, along with several statues and other structures within the grounds, such as the Orangery, are Grade II listed buildings. The site is designated as Metropolitan Green Belt, lies within a conservation area, and is also included at Grade II within the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.
Until 2012, the house and adjacent buildings constituted the Trent Park campus of Middlesex University. The campus hosted the performing arts, teacher education, humanities, product design and engineering, television production, and biological science departments, as well as the Flood Hazard Research Centre. The campus was vacated in October 2012.
The parkland extends to approximately 320 hectares (3.2 km2) and has been known as the Trent Country Park since 1973. The park includes a sports ground, Southgate Hockey Centre. Previously, there was an indoor tennis court that was attended by royalty. This later became a sports hall when the building was converted into a college of education.
The Trent Park site was purchased by a developer who received the necessary permits in October 2017 to construct 262 residential units. The site will also include a museum on the two lower floors of the mansion. While the university campus buildings were removed, the historic buildings, gardens and landscape were retained.
Trent Park dates back to the fourteenth century when it was a part of Enfield Chase, one of Henry IV's hunting grounds. In 1777 George III leased the site to Sir Richard Jebb, his favourite doctor, as a reward for treating the King's younger brother, the then Duke of Gloucester. Jebb, or possibly George III, named the estate Trent, because the treatment took place in Trento. Jebb subsequently acquired the freehold interest in the house and on his death it was sold to Lord Cholmondeley.
In about 1836 the house was bought by the banker David Bevan for his son Robert Cooper Lee Bevan on his marriage to Lady Agneta Yorke. Robert Bevan built Christ Church, Cockfosters in 1838 to provide a suitable place of worship for the district.
The author and researcher Nesta Webster (nee Bevan) was born at Trent Park in 1876.
In 1909 the estate was sold to Sir Edward Sassoon, father of Philip Sassoon (cousin of the poet Siegfried Sassoon). Sir Philip Sassoon inherited the estate in 1912 upon his father's death and went on to entertain many notable guests at Trent Park, including Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill.