Nuneham House

In September 2016 the house and a thousand acres of surrounding parkland and farmland, including the village of Nuneham Courtenay, were put up for sale in three separate lots for a total of £22 million.

Published in 1770, it expresses a fear that the destruction of villages and the conversion of land from productive agriculture to ornamental landscape gardens would ruin the peasantry.

Nissen huts and other, larger buildings were erected adjacent to the mansion, including a camp cinema which villagers were welcome to attend.

The RAF station continued after the war in the same role until the mid-1950s, when the added buildings and roadways were demolished and the estate handed back to the Harcourt family, who sold it to Oxford University.

The 1780 painting of the Earl and Countess Harcourt by Joshua Reynolds was accepted as payment to the Government in lieu of inheritance tax and was then allocated to the Ashmolean Museum in 2010.

[5][6] The estate includes the privately owned, two-storey Old Rectory, built in 1759 on the northern boundary by the first Earl.