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Compton Wynyates is a Tudor country house in Warwickshire, England, a Grade I listed building. The Tudor period house is constructed of red brick and built around a central courtyard. It is castellated and turreted in parts. Following action in the Civil War, half timbered gables were added to replace damaged parts of the building.
- Compton Wynyates (parish)
Compton Wynyates or Compton Wyniates is an ancient parish...
- Compton Wynyates (parish)
Find out about the history of Compton Wynyates, arguably one of the most perfect and inaccessible Tudor houses in all of England.
Compton Wynyates in Warwickshire, ca. 1983 Grundriss von Compton Wynyates. Compton Wynyates ist ein Landhaus in der englischen Grafschaft Warwickshire. English Heritage hat es als historisches Gebäude I. Grades gelistet. Das Haus aus der Tudorzeit wurde aus roten Ziegeln um einen zentralen Hof gebaut.
Church. Advowson. Footnotes. COMPTON WYNIATES. Acreage: 1,038. Population: 1911, 15; 1921, 32; 1931, 41. This small parish forms a narrow strip, 3½ miles from north-west to south-east with an average breadth of ½ mile, between Tysoe on the east and Whatcote and Brailes on the west.
Compton Wynyates originated as a medieval moated manor dating to about 1480. By the mid-19th century the site was in ruins until restorations began in about 1835. The 'best garden', designed as a topiary garden, was laid out in 1895, and at the same time a water garden was established in the vicinity of the existing moat.
Spencer Compton was born in 1673 in Compton Wynyates, a Tudor castle in Warwickshire. He was the third son of James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, who fought for the royalists during the English Civil War and his wife Mary Noel, daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden.
