Keydell House

50°51′10″N 1°0′46″W

Edmund Kean, former owner
Drury-Lowe, former owner

Keydell House[1] was situated in 45 acres (180,000 m2) of land near Lovedean Corner,[2] in the village of Horndean, part of the ecclesiastical parish of Catherington[3] Hampshire from Georgian times until its demolition to make way for houses in 1968.

History

The earliest deed still in existence (for the field "Nine Acres") is dated 1660.[4] The House itself was a three-storey, rectangular mansion with shuttered windows and formal gardens.[5] These eventually became Keydell Nurseries, although the business which still trades under that name moved to a bigger site in 1987.[6] The House had two notable owners: the Victorian actor Edmund Kean;[7] and, most famously, Sir Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe, a full general of the British Army.[8]

Notes
  1. Hampshire Register of Historic Parks and Gardens: Revised Deposit HBDWLP (Environment Department, Hampshire County Council, The Castle, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 8UE)
  2. Williams' Guide and Timetable to some of the Beauty Spots on the Portsdown and Horndean Light Railway, July 1913
  3. Victoria County History A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3 Page,W(Ed) 1908 pp 94-101
  4. Havant Museum, Local History Collection,Horndean Collection,Vol 4(Keydell): autobiographical notebook of Margaret Strange, Keydell resident 1928-53)
  5. Horndean 2000 Singleton,B. (1999, Horndean, Horndean Parish Council
  6. Current user of Keydell name
  7. Hampshire County Council's page on Horndean Archived 2007-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Drury-Lowe, Drury Curzon" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 846.
  • 1955
    1955
  • 1931 map of site
    1931 map of site
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