Ston Easton Park
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The south front of the house
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| Location | Ston Easton, Somerset, England |
| Coordinates | 51°17′6″N 2°32′37″W / 51.28500°N 2.54361°WCoordinates: 51°17′6″N 2°32′37″W / 51.28500°N 2.54361°W |
| Built | 1750 to 1760 |
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Listed Building – Grade I
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| Official name: Ston Easton Park | |
| Designated | 21 September 1960 |
| Reference no. | 1345108 |
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Listed Building – Grade II*
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| Official name: Stables to Ston Easton Park | |
| Designated | 25 June 1986 |
| Reference no. | 1295250 |
| Official name: Ston Easton Park | |
| Designated | 1 June 1984 |
| Reference no. | 1000128 |
 Location of Ston Easton Park in Somerset
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Ston Easton Park at Ston Easton within the English county of Somerset was built in the 18th century for John Hippisley-Coxe. It is a Grade I listed building and the grounds are listed Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
The current house was built around 1750 to 1760 on the site of a previous Tudor building for John Hippisley-Coxe. The architect is unsure but may have been Thomas Paty. It was occupied by the descendants of Hippisley-Coxe until 1956. Since then recent owners including William Rees-Mogg and Peter Smedley have been involved in restoring the house. It is now in use as a hotel.
The two-storey house has a symmetrical facade with projecting wings either side of the central doorway with a Tuscan portico. The interior of the stone house is decorated with extensive plaster mouldings to ceilings and fireplaces. The grounds and gardens were laid out by Humphry Repton, but have since been reduced in size.
The Hippisley family had been Lords of the Manor of Ston Easton and surrounding areas since the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It is unclear whether the family had originally come to England with William the Conqueror or were of Saxon origin, but they brought the rights to several local manors, some in association with William Rosewell. The Lord of the Manor, Preston Hippisley left the manor of Ston Easton to his daughter who married John Coxe of Leigh, Wiltshire, who was the member of parliament for Milborne Port and their son John Hippisley-Coxe married a rich woman, Mary Northliegh from Peamore, Exminster and with his increased wealth commence the building of the current house. They moved from the old manor house by the parish church to an old gabled manor house and started to convert it into a Palladian mansion with parkland and gardens incorporating parts of the earlier Tudor building.
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