Warbrook House Hotel, Eversley

Warbrook House is a building of historical significance and is listed as Grade I in the English Heritage Register.

John James held a number of public offices, eventually succeeding Sir Christopher Wren as Surveyor to St Paul's Cathedral.

In 1925 Eberlein said that one reason the house claims interest and attention is because "its own intrinsic beauty commends it to our favourable regard and its fidelity to one particular phase of the English domestic style of the period renders it worthy of close study.

"[3] The sundial at the entrance to the house was made by William Collier who was a craftsman in London who operated from 1712 until 1730.

John Comyn[6] lived there for some time and then in about 1762[7] It was bought by Sir George Nares (1716-1786) who owned Warbrook House from about 1762 until his death in 1786.

The 1851 Census shows the family living at Warbrook House with Catherine’s sister Elizabeth Bulteel (1792-1875) and seven servants.

[15] In 1854 she married Sir Richard Atwood Glass (1820-1873) who was the manufacturer of the Atlantic submarine cable and for this work he received a knighthood.

[17] Sir Richard died in 1873 when Anne was only 41 and she left Moorlands Villa a few years later to live in Warbrook House.

William Bruce Ellis Ranken (1881-1941) was a well-known artist, and brother-in-law to Ernest Thesiger.

[19] After he bought Warbrook Ranken undertook a considerable amount of repair work on the building.

[20] He created paintings of several rooms in the house which were included in the book by Basil Ionides called “Colour and Interior Decoration”.

The Sassoon family were very rich merchants who traded in India and China and were known as the “Rothchilds of the East”.

During World War II she offered the house to the New Zealand authorities as a convalescent home for recovering soldiers.

After a brief period when the property was virtually empty, its present owners restored the house and Warbrook became a hotel, conference and training centre.