Eythrope

She was the sister and companion of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild who owned the neighboring estate Waddesdon Manor.

While building was in progress Alice fell ill with rheumatic fever and was advised to avoid damp conditions at night.

With its twisting chimneys, turrets and gables, it is a mixture of Devey's usual Jacobean style and the French Renaissance architecture of Waddesdon Manor.

Around the house, Alice developed 30 acres of highly ornamental and innovative gardens that complemented the splendour of Waddesdon Manor.

She also created a four-acre walled kitchen garden and added an Old English Tea House (now lost) to the historic parkland.

[5] A large, rectangular stable block (listed grade II), built in stone and half-timber, and three picturesque lodges, were probably designed by W Taylor & Son of Bierton.

His widow, Dorothy, then moved to the smaller pavilion and made substantial alterations and enlargements in a solid late Victorian/Edwardian architectural style which complemented the original building.

A large Victorian glasshouse recreated on the foundations of an earlier glass house is used for the forcing of early cherries.

Scenes from And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, screened on BBC One from 26 to 28 December 2015, were filmed on the Estate roads and on the bridge at Eythrope.