Standish House - Gloucestershire
In the extreme south-east tip of the old parish of Morton Valence are Moreton Hill Farm and Standish House.
Standish House is said to have been built by Lord Sherborne as a hunting-lodge in 1830, but there was a building there in 1818, apparently either a farm building or a house under construction.
In 1824 a house on the site was called the Cottage.
Standish House is a stuccoed building of two stories enlarged in 1865, in a commanding position, and it was occupied c.1850-80 by the railway magnate Richard Potter,Whose daughter Beatrice Webb, Lady Passfield, spent her childhood there.
The house was used as a Red Cross hospital during the First World War, in 1921 it was bought from Lord Sherborne for the Gloucestershire Joint Committee for Tuberculosis which opened its sanatorium there in 1922.
In 1931 patients and staff numbered over 300, the buildings were extended in 1923-6, 1939, and 1947 but thereafter the hospital ceased to be exclusively for tuberculosis, and became a general chest, orthopaedic, and tuberculosis hospital.
After further building, it had 269 beds in 1967.
20/03/1851 Thomas and Eliza NIBLETT and daughter Mary A. lived in Standish House, Morton Valence.Gls. (House Keeper and Labourer). (info. Census 1851)
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