Benham Park is a mansion

Mansion

A mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over . A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms...

 (on the site of Benham Valence Manor) in the English

England

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 county of Berkshire

Berkshire

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, within the civil parish

Civil parish

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 of Speen

Speen, Berkshire

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. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Newbury

Newbury, Berkshire

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, not far off the A34, near the village of Marsh Benham

Marsh Benham

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.

The house was built by Henry Holland

Henry Holland (architect)

Henry Holland was an architect to the English nobility. Born in Fulham, London, his father also Henry ran a building firm and he built several of Capability Brown's buildings, although Henry would have learnt a lot from his father about the practicalities of construction it was under Brown that he...

 and Capability Brown

Capability Brown

Lancelot Brown , more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener". He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure...

 for William, 6th Baron Craven

William Craven, 6th Baron Craven

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 in 1775. It was later the home of his widow, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Craven

Elizabeth Craven , Princess Berkeley , previously "Lady Craven" of Hamstead Marshall, was an author, playwright, traveller, and socialite, perhaps best known for her travelogues...

 and her second husband, the Margrave of Anspach

Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

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. The building is Grade II listed, and one of its pairs of ornate gate piers is Grade I listed.

The building was converted into offices in 1983 by the IT company Norsk Data

Norsk Data

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, who used it as their headquarters for European operations (outside Norway), until the company's dissolution in 1992. Now it is home to 2e2 an ICT Lifecycle Services Provider.