1906 – Little Massingham House, Massingham, Norfolk
Architect: Wimperis & Best
Country House, circa1904-1905 by Edmund Wimperis and Best,
Country House, circa1904-1905 by Edmund Wimperis and Best,
“Built regardless of cost for Sir Henry Greer”
Extensive remodelling of an earlier house from the 1820s,
Published in The Building News,
An Edwardian country house with a hipped roof over a bracketed cornice,
In 1847, almost the whole of the Elizabethan part of the mansion was destroyed by fire.
After the second Durrow Abbey House was gutted by fire during the Civil War in 1923.
The home of Sir Cosmo Haskard who was Governor of the Falkland Islands in the 1960s and instrumental in the island remaining under British control when the government of the day was open to turning the islands over to Argentina.