Key Landmarks - Ebley - Ebley Court

HB Ebley Court by kind permission of Howard Beard

What: Historic House Site Where: GL5 4UQ   On Westward Road, Cainscross side of the Road to Ebley Mill Then: Built in 1587 and much rebuilt in the 19th century.  It eventually became a hotel but was demolished after a fire in the 1960s. Now: During the 1990s, the site was occupied by a vehicle hire company. Now developed as housing

The earliest part of the house to be recorded was built in 1587, by a clothier called Thomas Bennet who was the tenant of Ebley Mill. It may have stood on the same site as an earlier house called Skinner's Place which was lived in by the tenant of Ebley Mill in 1405. It was a gabled two-storey building of coursed rubble, partly faced in rough-cast. The building of 1587 was much altered in the mid 19th century in the Tudor style. From around 1877 to 1886 an Anglo-French  Finishing School for Young Ladies was run here by the Misses Kimmins, and sudsequently moved to Ryeford Hall.   It had a branch school in Dieppe.  At the end of the 19th century, Ebley Court was the home of W. Burton Stewart, the unsuccessful Conservative candidate for the Stroud constituency in 1906.

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