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Apartments". In the 1840s it remained, according to historian Brayley, "a handsome and substantial building, nearly of a square form, and has a neat portico, which was erected some years
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in deriving the locality name "Downside" from the family, but T.E.C. Walker more credibly derived the family's name from the location, referring to the hill or down near the river on that side of Cobham. That house was later also known as "Downe Hall". As Walker clarified, the direct connection of
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to make alterations to the house. His son, Harvey Combe Jr, inherited the estate in 1818 and began the process of landscaping the grounds. He demolished the workers cottages close to the mansion and moved the occupants to new purpose-built houses at
Downside. Harvey Combe Jr died in 1857 and was
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does not appear to have liked the new house, describing it as "very ugly French
Renaissance". The new mansion was one of the first houses in country to have its own electricity supply, which was fed from a generator at Downside Mill. Charles Combe also founded the Cobham Stud Company and was a
44:, England. The main house was converted to apartments in the early 2000s, but the majority of the surrounding former parkland remains undeveloped. At its height in the 19th century, the estate included the majority of the neighbouring settlement of dowside
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Charles Combe expanded the estate with the purchase of
Downside Mill in 1866 and land formerly belonging to Ham Manor in 1872. He commissioned a new house to be built on the same foundations as the mansion. It was designed by
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ago in place of a veranda. It includes a good saloon with a coved and ornamented ceiling, (now a billiard room), a library, and other convenient apartments, embellished with a few marble busts, and some good pictures."
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Downe Place and its estates with the Downe family ceased in 1720 when they were sold by the heirs of Jane
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Painshill in 1904. Later, family members moved into other houses on the estate, notably Cobham Court, Cossins House and Cobham Lodge.
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of the common fields of Cobham in 1779. He died childless in 1782, but Cobham Park remained under the control of his trustees. They added further land to the estate following the enclosure of the local
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at a party soon afterwards. Ligonier appears to have used Cobham Park as a place of retreat and leisure (apparently he had a harem of four young women). The house passed to a nephew
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leased the house and outbuildings and began a restoration project that year. In 1987, the company purchased Cobham Park from the Combe family for ÂŖ2M.
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