2012

SU6787 : North elevation, Nuffield Place, Nuffield, Oxfordshire (1)

taken 12 years ago, near to Nuffield, Oxfordshire, England

North elevation, Nuffield Place, Nuffield, Oxfordshire (1)
North elevation, Nuffield Place, Nuffield, Oxfordshire (1)
At the right is the north-facing window of the drawing room SU6787 : Drawing Room. Nuffield Place, Nuffield, Oxfordshire This part of the house dates to 1914 when the property was built. The extension behind the blue parasol is the billiard room, installed by the late Lord Nuffield when he owned the property in the 1930s.
Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire

Written by Brian Robert Marshall
Nuffield Place is situated on the western edge of the Chiltern Hills. It was the home of Viscount and Lady Nuffield from 1933 until their deaths in 1963 and 1959 respectively. As Sir William Morris, the founder of what eventually became the British Motor Company, Lord Nuffield purchased the house on the death of the previous owner who had built it in 1914 to the design of a Lutyens pupil, Oswald Partridge Milne. Nuffield made some alterations and extensions such as the billiard room and the conversion of some of the rooms but it remains largely true to the original design. By any standards Lord Nuffield should be considered an industrial magnate who would be worth hundreds of millions of pounds in today’s money. Although the house is impressive and the gardens quite extensive it was and remains quite modest for a man of such means. It does not appear to be listed but that is of no great significance now the property is in the safe hands of the National Trust who opened it for the first time in 2012 LinkExternal link The house and contents are substantially as they existed in the Nuffields’ time. The furniture and fittings date mostly to the thirties to fifties and contain such esoterica as an iron lung and Lord Nuffield’s pickled appendix. Well worth a visit.


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Geographical Context: Historic sites and artefacts Village, Rural settlement Category: Country house other tags: NT National Trust Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Viewing This Image on a Slideshow [13] · Room at Nuffield Place [10] · North Elevation [2] ·
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SU6787, 140 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Brian Robert Marshall   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 17 May, 2012   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 19 May, 2012
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 678 878 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:35.0987N 1:1.3003W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 678 878
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East-southeast (about 112 degrees)
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