Compton Park House (or Compton House) is a Grade I listed[1]manor house in Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire, England, about 7 miles (11 km) east of Salisbury.
History
Compton Park House was the seat of the Penruddocke (or Penruddock) family from the mid-16th century until 1930.[2] Much of their initial influence was owed to their patrons, the Earls of Pembroke of nearby Wilton Abbey.[3] They were a notable Royalist family, with Colonel John Penruddock, an owner of the house, being the namesake for the failed 1655 Penruddock uprising against Oliver Cromwell. For this he was tried and executed at Exeter on 16 May 1655.[4] Several other members of the family were local Members of Parliament or High Sheriffs of Wiltshire.[5]
Architecture
The present house may occupy the site of a medieval manor house; Pevsner saw fragments of medieval work.[6] It was refitted internally by Sir Edward Penruddocke in the late 17th century and rebuilt externally in 1780 by Charles Penruddocke. The drawing room from about 1700 has panelling and rich decoration in Grinling Gibbons style, with a plaster ceiling from the same period. In the dining room, part of the 1780 additions, is a plaster ceiling in Adam style.
The stable block dates from the late 18th century.[7] The house has been a Grade I listed building since 1960.[8]
Compton Park
The folly
The house is set in parkland, once a medieval deer park, overlooking a lake formed by damming a stream running north into the River Nadder.[3] The park contains a folly in the form of a summer house at 51°04′16″N 1°57′19″W / 51.07114°N 1.95523°W / 51.07114; -1.95523.
^"Sale catalogue of Compton Park estate". National Archives. 1930. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
^ a bCraven, Alex. "Wiltshire: Work in progress: Compton Chamberlayne: Introduction" (PDF). Victoria County History. University of London. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
^"Death Warrant of Colonel John Penruddock" (PDF). Wiltshire OPC Project. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
^Burke, Bernard (1879). A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Burke's Landed Gentry. Harrison. pp. 1258–1259.
