Langley Park, Buckinghamshire

[1] A house with stables and outbuildings was built to replace the hunting lodge some time after 1603, when Sir John Kederminster (or Kedermister) was appointed Chief Steward of the Manor of Langley Park.

In 1755 he commissioned architect and builder Stiff Leadbetter to build a grander house on the site, also to be used as a hunting lodge.

[5] During the Second World War the house was used as the SE Regional HQ of the Home Guard until 1944, and then as headquarters of the Polish units involved in the D-Day landings.

The leasehold of the house was sold (i.e. the freehold remained with Buckinghamshire County Council) in 2004 for £2.4 million; in 2018 it reopened as a hotel run by the Marriott Group.

John Preston Neale's Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland (1818) notes that "This Mansion is a handsome stone edifice; it is large and square, having a pediment on its principal front.

The apartments it contains are well arranged and of considerable dimensions ... a piece of water runs along the South Front of the House, at the foot of a sloping lawn, on which are scattered some beautiful clumps of trees, and other woodland scenery; Windsor Castle, and the heights of the forest, form its distant view.

[1] The park, designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in the 1760s,[9] has woods, a lake formed by damming a stream, pastures and trees in clumps and individually planted.