Little Durnford Manor
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Little Durnford Manor is a Grade I-listed country house in Durnford, Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of the city of Salisbury. The current house was built in the late 17th century and remodelled for Edward Younge, a friend of Lord Pembroke, around 1720–1740.
The manor of Little Durnford was mentioned in an inquisition at Amesbury on 6 October 1470, which found that John Wodhull, the great nephew of the owner at the time, was the heir to the manor and Tytherley.[1]
The current house was built in the late 17th century and remodelled for Edward Younge, a friend of Lord Pembroke, around 1720–1740. The house was designated a Grade I listing in 1953.[2]
Little Durnford Manor has been the seat of John Pelham, 9th Earl of Chichester, since he purchased it in 1966; the family's previous seat, Stanmer House in East Sussex, was sold by trustees for the earl when he was three years old.[3]
