The manor house at Alvediston dates from the mid-18th century.[1]Nikolaus Pevsner, in his Buildings of England, notes that the house is "of brick, in a stone county".[2]
It is of two storeys and is five bays wide and stands in the centre of the village.[1] In 1968, the house was bought by Anthony Eden, using funds from the sale of his memoirs.[3] His wife, Clarissa, designed the garden and Eden kept a small herd of Hereford cattle at the farm he purchased at the same time.[a][5] In 1975, his last volume of memoirs, Another World, was written at Alvediston. Eden died at the house on 14 January 1977 and is buried in the village churchyard.[6]
Alvediston is a Grade II Listed building,[1] with the garages,[7] and the garden walls, which Pevsner noted were "nicely curved",[2] and the gates and gate piers having separate Grade II listings.[8]
Footnotes
^Clarissa Eden recorded her husband's pride in becoming President of the Hereford Herd Book Society; "He was always able to pick out a good animal for stud. They all looked the same to me".[4]
