The Mansion, Berkhamsted

[1] The house was designed by George Hubbard and built by H and J Matthews between 1906 and 1908 for Sir John Evans.

[3] Evans called the house Britwell but, after his death 1908, it was bought by Sir Arthur Cory Wright, a businessman, who renamed it Berkhamsted Hill.

[4] The house was bought by the Deen family in 1919 and by Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper, a businessman, in 1937.

[4] After Cooper's death in 1946, the house was acquired by his family chemicals business which itself was bought by the Wellcome Trust in 1959.

[4] Now known as "the Mansion",[1] it became the centre point of a retirement facility known as "Castle Village" in 1999.