Goodwood House

WESTHAMPNETT GOODWOOD PARK SU 80 NE 13/98 Goodwood House 5.6.58 - I

The original house on this site was an Elizabethian building which was pur- chased by the first Duke of Richmond, son of Charles II, in 1720 and used by him as a hunting lodge. To this his son, the second Duke, added a small red brick rectangular building about 1723. This is still standing to the west of the main part of the present house and is concealed by the latter except from the west side. The Elizabethan house was pulled down and re- built by James Wyatt for the third Duke of Richmond. The dates given both by Dallaway's History of West Sussex and by the Dictionary of Architecture for this are 1800-1806, but the interior of the Library at least is in Wyatt's earlier manner, and it is more likely that his work on the house at Goodwood dates from at least 1787, when he built the kennels in the Park. Both interior and exterior were unfinished at the third Duke's death in 1806. The house was probably intended to be the shape of an octagonal courtyard, but only 3 sides of the octagon were built with circular towers at the ends and at the junction of the sides. Two storeys, (three storeys in towers). Squared knapped flints. Slate roof. (The towers have copper domed roofs.) Modillion cornice and parapet. The centre side has nine windows and a two storeyed portico in the centre (six Doric columns below with triglyph frieze and six Ionic columns above supporting a balustrade). Ground floor windows in stuccoed arcading. East side has five windows. The three central window bays of this side project with balustraded parapet over. The outer ground floor windows are round-headed. The centre window has a pediment over sup- ported on consoles. The west side is similar with the exception that the projecting centre portion has a pediment over instead of a balustrade. The towers have four windows each. All glazing bars intact throughout.

Listing NGR: SU8880808839