Great Chalfield Manor

[1] The moated manor house was built around 1465–1480 for Thomas Tropenell, a modest member of the landed gentry who made a fortune as a clothier.

It is on the site of an earlier fortified house, of which traces remain: the bases of curtain walls to the east and north, and parts of two towers.

[citation needed] The house was altered substantially (with some of the original character lost) after the Neale family commissioned the architect Thomas Larkins Walker, a pupil of Augustus Pugin, to carry out a detailed survey of the manor in 1836; though his restoration proposals of 1837 were never carried out, the house was reduced and in particular, the great hall, adapted as a farmhouse, lost its ornate ceiling, with only one of the original bosses surviving.

[citation needed] Externally there is a garden with four "tree houses", groups of four clipped yews that have grown together and been hollowed out inside to allow one to walk through.

[2] The present church was built c. 1480 by Thomas Tropenell and the surviving features from that time include the south chapel, the small square bellcote and the roof of the nave.

[12] The house and grounds have been used for location filming including: Wives and Daughters (1999);[13] Persuasion (2007);[citation needed] The Other Boleyn Girl (2008);[14] Tess of the d'Urbervilles (2008);[15] Wolf Hall (2014);[16] Poldark (2015);[17][18] and The White Princess (2017).