Minstead Lodge

Minstead Lodge in Hampshire is a building of historical significance built in about 1830 and is Grade II listed on the English Heritage Register.

[4] By the late 1880s the Preston family rented the house to wealthy tenants, the first being Archibald Acheson, 4th Earl of Gosford.

[5] For a few years William Deane Preston, the eldest son of Major William Berthon Preston lived at the house and then it was sold to Jane Hart Matthews Duncan, widow of physician James Matthews Duncan.

[10] Her son William, 7th Lord Congleton, inherited Minstead Lodge on coming of age in 1946; and his mother bought and removed to the Island of Ulva, in Scotland.

[11] The 7th Baron Congleton, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and a bachelor, lived at Minstead Lodge until his death in a car accident in 1967.