I have written before about West Horsley Place where Grange Park Opera relocated in 2017, but not since Charles O’Brien’s excellent revised Pevsner volume was published in 2022. 

I had remembered how atmospheric the crumbly main house is, left unexpectedly by the Duchess of Roxburghe to the late Bamber Gascoigne, her great-nephew, but not how oddly small its gothick front door is, as if it was an accident or after-thought, which indeed it is, put in by Henry Weston who inherited the house in 1749. 

If he wanted to aggrandise it, I don’t think he succeeded:-

And not to forget the wonderful crinkle-crankle walls:-