Coleshill House

[2] The priory was closed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and acquired by Thomas Seymour, fourth husband of Henry VIII's widow Catherine Parr.

His only daughter Harriet was married in 1748 to William Bouverie, son of Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone; William became the 2nd Viscount Folkestone on his father's death in 1761 and was created the 1st Earl of Radnor and 1st Baron Pleydell-Bouverie in 1765.

[3] In the XIXth and ealry XXth centuries the manor was the home in southern England of the Fawcett family, of Sandford Hall, Westmoreland.

It measured approximately 120 by 60 feet (37 m × 18 m), with two main floors of nine bays, above a rusticated basement, and an attic with seven prominent dormer windows and four tall chimney-stacks on each side of the hipped roof.

The roof was topped by a flat deck surrounded by a balustrade with a central belvedere cupola.

The main floors had equal heights, unlike the Palladian emphasis on the piano nobile.

[5] During the Second World War, the house was requisitioned as the training headquarters for the Auxiliary Units, the secret British Resistance in the event of a German invasion.

[9][3] Surviving features include two single-storey entrance lodges: one built c.1850 on the southern edge of the village[10] and the other on the road east from the village, of similar or later date and joined to a long 18th-century wall, ten feet in height.