Burley Grange

House built or rebuilt by Thomas Holloway, when he retired there from Burley Lodge in 1822. Until 1856, Richard Bowden-Smith and his wife, Georgina, lived in this house, then called Burley Cottage ('we were settled in Vernalls in 1856, having left Burley Cottage'). They must have been renting from Mrs Harriet Roberts, ‘the poetess’ , whose ‘retired woodland seat’ it was (White’s, 1859), as early as 1848 (Hardcastle, p. 191). According to Hardcastle she altered and enlarged the house, devoting a special room to her 20 or 30 cats. On the 1872 map it is still called Burley Cottage but by 1897 it has been renamed Burley Grange and has a carriage drive and a second building which is probably stables. Roberts sold it to James Davis around 1875, and his daughters to Mr Weinholt around 1897. Around 1912, Owen Talbot Price, Esq. purchased it.