Woodchester Mansion
| Woodchester Mansion | |
|---|---|
View of the south front | |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| Location | Nympsfield, Gloucestershire, England |
| Construction started | 1858 |
| Completed | 1870 (partially) |
| Client | William Leigh |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | Cotswold stone /vaulting |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Benjamin Bucknall |
Woodchester Mansion is an unfinished, Gothic revival mansion house in Nympsfield, Gloucestershire, England. It is on the site of an earlier house known as Spring Park. The mansion is a Grade I listed building.
The mansion was abandoned by its builders in the middle of construction, leaving behind a building that appears complete from the outside, but with floors, plaster and whole rooms missing inside. It has remained in this state since the mid-1870s.
The mansion's creator William Leigh bought the Woodchester Park estate for £100,000 in 1854, demolishing the existing house, which had been home to the Ducie family.
A colony of approximately 200 greater horseshoe bats reside within the attic of the mansion, and have been studied continuously since the mid-1950s.