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This extraordinary building with the appearance of a doll's house nestles in a beautiful valley on the Berkshire Downs, surrounded by woodland. It was built by an Earl, William Craven, as a house fit for the queen he loved, Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia in 1662.
Ashdown House (also known as Ashdown Park) is a 17th-century country house in the civil parish of Ashbury in the English county of Oxfordshire. Until 1974 the house was in the county of Berkshire, and the nearby village of Lambourn remains in that county.
Built by Lord William Craven for Elizabeth Stuart – the woman known as the Winter Queen – Ashdown House marks the culmination of a story of royalty and war, love and devotion. Who was Elizabeth Stuart? Elizabeth was the daughter of King James I of England and VI of Scotland.
Find out when Ashdown is open, how to get here, the things to see and do and more. Take a guided tours of the historic house’s opulent interiors, rooftop views and a maze; enjoy tranquil woodland walks, with a tree trail and resident deer.
Ashdown House (probably William Wynde and/or Sir Balthasar Gerbier, 1660s, listed grade I) stands at the centre of the surrounding park and woodland, facing the four cardinal points.
Ashdown House. This tall narrow mansion built by William, First Earl of Craven (1606-97), is said by family tradition among his descendants to have been intended as a gift for the beautiful and vivacious Princess Elizabeth, sister of Charles I, also known as the ‘Winter Queen’ or ‘Queen of Hearts’.
Ashdown House is an unusual Dutch-style house on the Berkshire Downs built in the early 1660s for William, 1st Earl of Craven. Legend purports that Ashdown was built during an outbreak of plague in London as a refuge for Elizabeth of Bohemia, to whom Craven was devoted.
