Cadlands

Cadland Park was the seat of the Drummonds, from 1773 until it was demolished in 1953 to make way for the Esso Oil Refinery. It was built by Robert Drummond (1729-1804), partner in the famous banking house of Drummonds, and enlarged and remodeled, 1837-8, for Andrew Robert Drummond, by Jeffry Wyattville. The Drummonds still own the Manor of Cadland and have renamed their cottage orne to the south, Cadland House.Kelly’s 1915, p. 210‘a mansion of white brick, standing on a gentle eminence in an extensive and finely wooded park, about a mile north of the village, on the western shore of Southampton Water and affords delightful views of Spithead and the Needles; the house was built in 1773, and in 1836 was enlarged and improved by Mr Andrew Robert Drummond (d. 1865), as a cost of over £40, 000: the park, including in all 500 acres, is undulating and picturesque: the Cadland estate extends from Hythe to Lepe with about 8 miles of river frontage, and contains about 120 labourers’ cottages besides other residences. Forest Lodge is the residence of Cyril Martineau esq... Batey p. 46 Working with Mason at Nuneham on picturesque riverside walks, was for the landscaping of the Drummond family’s cottage orne overlooking the Solent, known as Boarn Hill, now replaced by Cadland House. Brown had already worked for the Hon. Robert Drummond, his banker, at his main house Cadlands, now overtaken by the Fawley Refinery. Gilpin admired Brown’s work there, even the clumps which he thought were “just such as the picturesque eye would wish to introduce into the landscape”. The views too were presented with admirable effect from grand woody foregrounds. Brown’s plan for Boarn Hill, now being restored, shows the sea bank with a gravel path leading through a banked shrubbery, reminiscent of “Brown’s Walk” at Nuneham.