Berry Head House

[1] The building was originally built in 1809 by the Board of Ordinance as a military hospital in support of the three Napoleonic war forts on Berry Head.

[2] Later it became the home of the hymnist and poet Henry Francis Lyte who turned the building into a country house and bought the surrounding lands.

In the ground of the property, Lyte wrote the words to the Hymn "Abide with Me" and "Praise, my soul, the King of heaven".

Evelyn George Martin a guest of Lyte family, and lived at Berry Head between his school terms at Eton College.

The house was sold by James Arthur Palmes, only surviving son of Arthur Lindsay Palmes and Alice Massingberd Maxwell Hogg (granddaughter of HF Lyte) but other parts of the estate were sold off later, including the Berry Head Forts and Headland.