Glasshayes

‘[A] very curious house' built on the site of a cottage by the Duc de Stacpole during the 1850s, improved by Charles Castleman, solicitor and principal director of the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, later chairman of the LSWR, in the 1860s, and owned by Col. Alexander Caldecleugh Macleay c.1875-1896. It was sold to Mr Tilley, a speculator for 'about £15,000'. By 1899 had become the Grand Hotel and was run by Tilley and Courtenay. [Lots more to write up.]