Eythrope Pavilion

The Eythrope Pavilion is a house dating to 1876-1879, with significant extensions added in the 1950s and alterations around 1990. It was originally built by George Devey for Alice de Rothschild as a daytime retreat from her brother’s nearby Waddesdon Manor. Alice de Rothschild purchased the Eythrope estate in 1875, and developed 30 hectares of ornamental gardens, including a large kitchen garden. The building's design reflects a combination of French and English Renaissance styles.

The building is constructed of red and vitreous brick with ashlar dressings, featuring steeply pitched tiled roofs. Architectural details include a plinth, a moulded cornice on Tuscan pilasters with ornamental capitals and carved lugs, a panelled brick parapet with stone pilasters and ball finials, and Tudor chimneys with variously patterned circular and octagonal shafts.

The east front features a canted projection with an ornamental gable including carved stone pilaster strips, friezes, flanking scrolls, and a carved lion finial. The right bay has a more curvilinear gable with scrolls, a segmental pediment, and ball finials. A semi-circular bay window with a stone balustrade is on the ground floor of the right bay. Stone mullion and transom windows incorporate central arched lights. The central bay has three stone architraves with keyblocks, the middle arch containing a doorway flanked by columns. The south front has a two-story semi-circular bay window projecting through the eaves, surmounted by a tall spire. A large three-light mullion and transom window was inserted around 1990, with a small side arch leading to a loggia. The west front presents an ornamental gable on the left, a two-story bay window in the center, semi-circular chimneys with tall projecting brick stacks added around 1990, an arched loggia to the right of the attic, and attic windows in French oeil-de-boeuf dormers.

The interior contains imported late-18th century French ‘boiserie’ panels in the former Blue Dining Room and the Dining Room. The latter room also contains imported late eighteenth-century French panels. The interior decoration of the main reception rooms is in a simple Classic style, with French-style marble fireplaces. A curved staircase with an iron balustrade was inserted around 1950.