Ockham Park is a Grade II listed English country house

English country house

The English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a London house. This allowed to them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these people, the term distinguished between town and country...

 in Ockham, Surrey

Ockham, Surrey

Ockham is a tiny English village near East Horsley, in Surrey, England. The village lies to the east of the A3 which runs between Cobham and Guildford. Other neighbouring villages include Ripley, Wisley and Effingham....

. Built ca 1638 for the Weston family, it was altered in 1727-9 to designs by Nicholas Hawksmoor

Nicholas Hawksmoor

Nicholas Hawksmoor was a British architect born in Nottinghamshire, probably in East Drayton.-Life:Hawksmoor was born in Nottinghamshire in 1661, into a yeoman farming family, almost certainly in East Drayton, Nottinghamshire. On his death he was to leave property at nearby Ragnall, Dunham and a...

 for Peter, Lord King

Peter King, 1st Baron King

Peter King, 1st Baron King PC, FRS was an English lawyer and politician, who became lord chancellor of England.-Life:He was born in Exeter in 1669....

. In the 1830s it was extended in Italianate style

Italianate architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and...

 style for the seventh Lord King. The house was gutted by fire in 1948, leaving the orangery

Orangery

An orangery was a building in the grounds of fashionable residences from the 17th to the 19th centuries and given a classicising architectural form. The orangery was similar to a greenhouse or conservatory...

, stable block, kitchen wing, and a solitary Italianate tower. The estate of 4984 acres was auctioned 21 October 1958 and partly restored in the 1970s.

A steel engraving "Ockham Park, seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of Lovelace

Earl of Lovelace

Earl of Lovelace is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1838 for William King-Noel, 8th Baron King. The King family descends from Jerome King, a grocer, of Exeter, and his wife Anne, daughter of Peter Locke, nephew of the philosopher John Locke...

" by T.A.Prior after a picture by T. Allom, was published in Brayley, A Topographical History of Surrey, 1850.