Asthall Manor

Asthall Manor is a vernacular two-storey house with attics, built of local Cotswold limestone on an irregular H-plan with mullioned and mullioned-transomed windows and a stone-slated roof typical of the area.

[3] The core of the current building at Asthall was built in 1620[1][4] for Sir William Jones on the site of the mediaeval hall.

[7] The Mitfords were great socialites, and Asthall hosted frequent hunting and shooting weekend parties, regular guests included Clementine Churchill, Frederick Lindemann and Walter Sickert.

The Mitfords subsequently leased 26 Rutland Gate in London's Knightsbridge district following the sale of Asthall.

[10] It was created for the current owners of Asthall by Julian and Isobel Bannerman (best known for their work for Prince Charles at Highgrove House)[8] and includes traditional gardens of herbaceous borders and lawns, contemporary parterres and areas of wild woodland and wildflowers running down to water-meadows by the River Windrush.