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Zeals, an English Country Manor House in Wiltshire, was filled with
life, dogs, books, flowers and a grand piano in the Great Hall. It
was a house for landed gentry, but is now on Historic England's 'At
Risk' register. This fascinating house has a rich history. Charles
II took refuge at Zeals on his flight to the coast and a family
member was beheaded by Oliver Cromwell for daring to confront his
parliamentary troops. The house has medieval origins, but there
were later additions - predominately those from the nineteenth
century by Victorian architect George Devey, as well as earlier
changes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The
Chafyn-Grove family, later Troyte-Bullock inheriting in a sideways
move, lived at Zeals for 500 years until the mid-twentieth century,
when the fate of the estate mirrored that of many others in
England. Jennie Elias charts the joys and tragedies of generations
of Zeals residents, with characters ranging from haughty to
charming; eccentric to prejudiced. There were failures through
political levelling down and cultural change, but also of their own
making. This definitive history also explores and celebrates the
architecture of Zeals.
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