Built in 1780 as a Georgian house, it was demolished in 1904 and rebuilt as a Jacobean style mansion in 1906-8 by Ernest George for the Masons family who took up residence in 1866.
The north wing was completed in 1900 by architect Sir Ernest George.
When James moved to the West Dean Estate in 1891, he set about altering and greatly extending the house and commissioned Ernest George and Harold Peto to do so.
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Bedford Lemere & Co photographed buildings by notable architects; John Norton (architect), Matthew Digby Wyatt, Ernest George, Ernest George, Harold Peto, Arthur Blomfield, Alfred Waterhouse and Edward Blakeway I'Anson who designed Winterfold House in Surrey.
After the death of the last Peachey heir it became the home of William James in 1891 and in 1893 much of the house was remodelled to designs by Ernest George and Harold Peto.
Glencot House is a Grade II listed country house dating from 1887, by Ernest George and Harold Peto, for W. S. Hodgkinson.
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