Pylewell House

Enlarged during the early nineteenth century by Joseph Weld, who also moved the road to the north to create the park. William Ingham Whitaker, who had inherited estates bought with wealth made out of the Marsala wine trade, 'acquired the estate in 1874, immediately making significant alterations to the house and adding a new drive and lodge'. His son William inherited it in 1893 and developed the pleasure grounds with Asian and Australasian plant collections.