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Sunningdale Park

Country estate in Berkshire, England

Summary

Country estate in Berkshire, England

Field	Value
name	Sunningdale Park
alt_name	Sunningdale Park
image	File:Northcote House January 2025.jpg
image_size	300
image_caption	Northcote House in Sunningdale Park
location	Sunningdale, Berkshire
nearest_city	London
coordinates
area	32 ha
owner	Private
open	All year
parking	Yes
facilities	Restaurant
designation2	Grade II Listed Building
designation2_offname	Northcote House
designation2_date
1323678<ref>{{NHLE	num	1323678	desc= Northcote House, Civil Service College	access-date= 7 February 2023}}
embed	yes
designation3	National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens
designation3_offname	Sunningdale Park
designation3_date
designation3_number	1001667

1323678

Sunningdale Park is a country estate centred around a property known as Northcote House in Sunningdale, Berkshire.

Northcote House is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England, with the lake, gardens and parkland also separately Grade II listed and on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The lodges, kitchen gardens and stables are also part of the Grade II listing.

History

The house is thought to have been built by James Wyatt, almost certainly for James William Steuart, a farmer, in around 1787. It was acquired by Sir Charles Decimus Crosley, a former Sheriff of London from the Steuart family in 1859. It then passed to Sir James Thompson Mackenzie, 1st Baronet in 1883, to Major William James Joicey, the then serving High Sheriff of Durham, in 1890 and to Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, an industrialist, in 1930.

Northcote House accommodated the Civil Defence College from 1950 until it closed in 1968. The Civil Service College was then established in the building in June 1970. The ill-fated Sunningdale Agreement on power-sharing in Northern Ireland was signed in Northcote House on 9 December 1973.

The Civil Service College evolved to become the National School of Government, which provided training, organisational development and consultancy courses for UK civil servants and private individual learners until its closure in March 2012. In March 2015, the College of Policing opened an office in the Albert Day building. Sunningdale Park was then sold to Audley Retirement and Berkeley Homes in December 2016.

Architecture

In grounds of 65 acre there is a Grade II listed neo-Georgian mansion called Northcote House, which was built in 1930, and in which notable features include the grand staircase and front portico. The landscaped park and gardens are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

Gallery

Sunningdale Park North Lodge.jpg|The estate's main entrances with North Lodge located on the right Northcote House interior.jpg|View onto the first floor from within main hall in Northcote House Sunningdale Park Parklands.jpg|The estate parklands and arboretum

References

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"History of Sunningdale Park".
"Our heritage". EPC Resilience.
"Civil Service College". National Archives.
(9 December 1973). "1973: Sunningdale Agreement signed". BBC News.
[http://www.nationalschool.gov.uk/ National School of Government] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-12-27 accessed 19 June 2012)
[http://www.college.police.uk/About/Pages/Locations.aspx/ College of Policing] accessed 16 October 2016
(21 December 2016). "Government sells Sunningdale Park for Redevelopment". Property Week.
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