Abbess Grange is a neo-Elizabethan house at Leckford

Leckford

Leckford is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. It lies on the eastern bank of the River Test just to the south of its confluence with the River Anton, to the east of Longstock and south of Chilbolton. The parish has a population of around 136....

, Hampshire

Hampshire

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 designed by Sir Banister Fletcher

Banister Fletcher

Sir Banister Flight Fletcher was an English architect and architectural historian, as was his father, also named Banister Fletcher....

, a British architect, in 1901 for George Miles Bailey, on the site of a former grange of St. Mary's Abbey, Winchester

St. Mary's Abbey, Winchester

St. Mary's Abbey, also known as Nunnaminster, was a Benedictine nunnery in Winchester, Hampshire. It was founded at the close of the ninth century by Alfred the Great and his queen Ealhswith . The first buildings were completed by their son, Edward the Elder. The first abbess was Edward's daughter...

. The house consists of a two-storey main block with attic and a projecting single-storey billiards hall on the left, and is built on a levelled platform cut out of the hillside. The Dutch-gabled right hand three bays of the main block project forward and have, in the centre, an Ionic

Ionic order

The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian...

 porch with pairs of column supporting a heavy entablature. Over the porch is a seven-light mullioned and transom window, and to either side is a three-light Ipswich window. In 1984 the interior was said to be largely unaltered. The house is now a country club for the John Lewis Partnership

John Lewis Partnership

The John Lewis Partnership is an employee-owned UK partnership which operates John Lewis department stores, Waitrose supermarkets and a number of other services...

, and forms part of their Leckford estate.