HISTORY
The manor house dates from the 16th or 17th century, with a dining room and library panelled in about 1640nd 17th century stables and dovecote. It was the home of Sir Thomas Penyston, 1st Baronet and his family occupied the house until the 19th century. A new front was built onto the house in about 1750, and the drawing room has a fireplace in the style of Robert Adam. In 1939 the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, who had designed Portmeirion in north Wales, restored the house, added a ballroom and laid out the gardens. The house is a Grade II* listed building.
CURRENT SITUATION
Cornwell Manor and the surrounding privately owned hamlet is on a 2,000 acre estate located near Chipping Norton on the Oxfordshire-Gloucestershire borders. It is in one of the most beautiful areas of the Cotswolds, within easy reach of Heathrow, London and Oxford. It is on the doorstep of Daylesford Organic Farm Shop & Spa and Soho Farmhouse, and local festivals such as the Cornbury Music Festival, Wilderness Festival and The Big Feastival.
It is never open to the public but is now available for exclusive private hire, weddings and events during a few months of the year and remains a peaceful and graceful presence in the ever-popular Cotswolds. To stay here offers a glimpse into a rare and privileged, very British way of life; to be married here is fantasy fulfilled.
