Pyrland Hall

Pyrland Hall is a country house near Cheddon Fitzpaine in the English county of Somerset.

[2] After the death of Sir Henry Lacy Yea, 3rd Baronet in 1864, the house was sold to Arthur Malet.

[4] James Lees-Milne recorded his unsuccessful attempts to arrange the gifting of the hall to the National Trust, and his impressions of the owner, in his volume Some Country Houses and their Owners; "... a horrible day with Colonel Pemberton.

"[5] During the early years of the Second World War, the house and gardens were used by the British Army as the main headquarters for VIII Corps,[6] which was formed to command the defence of Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Bristol.

[1] The hall sits within a 32-acre (13 ha) estate, parts of which have been made into playing fields, and is surrounded by National Trust-owned farmland.