Youngsbury
{{Short description|Country house in Hertfordshire, England}}
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Youngsbury House is a Grade II listed house near Wadesmill, Hertfordshire, England.{{NHLE|num=1102317 |desc=Youngbury and Garden Wall Attached on North|access-date= 30 August 2015}} The stable block is Grade II* listed.{{NHLE|num=1176876 |desc=Stable Block at Youngsbury (60 Metres to North of House)|access-date=30 August 2015}}
The house was built in about 1745 by David Poole.{{cite web|title=Youngsbury, Hertford, England|url=http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/3621|website=parksandgardens|access-date=6 August 2015}}
There are 97 acres of grounds, and gardens landscaped by Capability Brown.{{cite news|last1=Boucher|first1=Caroline|title=Welcome to Youngsbury|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/magazine/article4404176.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411202833/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/magazine/article4404176.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 11, 2015|access-date=6 August 2015|work=The Times|date=11 April 2015}}
They are listed Grade II*.{{Cite web |title=Youngsbury |url=https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/youngsbury |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=Parks&Gardens}}
People connected with it
David Barclay, the Quaker banker and abolitionist, bought the manor in 1769, and enlarged the house. A plan by Capability Brown the following year introduced a serpentine lake,{{cite book|author=Hugh C. Prince|title=Parks in Hertfordshire Since 1500|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mOYyyPCRbuYC&pg=PA97|access-date=27 April 2012|date=1 April 2008|publisher=Univ of Hertfordshire Press|isbn=978-0-9542189-9-7|pages=97–}} using the waters of the River Rib.
Barclay sold it in 1793, after the death of his second wife, to William Cunliffe Shawe, and it passed in 1796 to Daniel Giles.{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43626 |title=Parishes: Standon |editor=William Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1912 |work=A History of the County of Hertford: volume 3 |access-date=27 April 2012 }}
In 2012, it was for sale, "offers in excess of £3,900,000".{{cite web|title=7 bedroom house for sale Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12|url=http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-22562259.html|website=Rightmove|access-date=6 August 2015}} As of 2015, it was owned by Jeremy Langmead, the former editor of Wallpaper* magazine and Esquire magazine, who used to be married to writer India Knight.[https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/ripping-up-the-yule-book-6377034.html "Ripping up the Yule book: Jeremy Langmead's dysfunctional family festivities"], London Evening Standard, 9 December 2011 In 2017 it was sold to James and Claire Pearce who have restored it to better, but similar to, its original state. It is their family home for them and their three children. It took nearly three years to obtain all the required Planning and other permissions.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} However, the house itself was completed in February 2023 and the family occupied it.
the family The gardens and other nearby features are to be completed, although the parkland remains open to walkers.
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Category:Grade II listed buildings in Hertfordshire
Category:Grade II* listed buildings in Hertfordshire
Category:Houses completed in 1745
Category:Grade II listed houses
Category:Country houses in Hertfordshire
Category:Gardens by Capability Brown
Category:Grade II* listed parks and gardens in Hertfordshire