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Lackham House: Historic House of Wiltshire, England
Image Geograph © Copyright Betty Longbottom and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.
Type of Building:
- Condition:
- Location:
- When Built: early 1790s
- Architect:
- Built for/by: James Montagu (1749-1797)
- Owned by: National Trust
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History
Lackham House is owned by the National Trust. The present house was built in the early 1790s by James Montagu (1749-1797) but passed out of the Montagu family in 1835; building the house (and speculation in canal-building) appears to have over-extended the family finances, and the last Montagu owner of the house seems to have spent more of his adulthood in debtors' prisons or on the run from his creditors than at the house. A previous building, whose earliest parts date from the fourteenth century, had been in the possession of the Montagus and the Baynards (from whom the Montagus inherited it) from c. 1350. The Tudor arms which existed on the exterior seem to show that a visit from Henry VIII was expected. There is no record other than local tradition that the visit actually took place; it may be that he had Lackham House on his itinerary but stood them up because he stayed longer at Wolf Hall, in order to pay attentions to Jane Seymour, than he had intended.
People Associated with Lackham House
…in chronological order
c. 1790
- James Montagu (1749-1797)