Froyle Place

Froyle Place is said to have been built in 1588, and it is, in the main, a gabled U-shaped Elizabethan manor house of the local clunch or hard chalk. A cellar at the north-west retains two fine Tudor doorways, and an adjacent quoin bears a consecration cross. The upper drawing shows the house in 1660.
Towards the end of the eighteenth century, probably when bought by the Millers, sash windows were inserted, and the principal rooms modernised in the Adam taste; in about 1865 and later, further and less attractive alterations were made, including that of the centre between the wings on the south-east front. The gardens were laid out with uncommon charm, and attractive feature being a curving double border sunk between a convex terrace and a clipped yew hedge. The lower photograph was taken in 1912.

Nowadays the house is part of the Treloar School. During the early years of the First World War Froyle Place was used as a Military Hospital, and, in late 2000, the Froyle Archive was loaned a family album which included several pages recalling this period in the house's life.