Ottershaw Park, Surrey

The Original Mansion was built by Thomas Sewell following his acquisition of the land in 1761. Edmund Boehm purchased the Mansion in 1796 and enlarged the property with the addition of a Doric Portico, a Conservatory and an Orangery. The property remained largely unchanged until it's purchase by Sir Edward Colebrooke who, in 1868, made considerable modifications to both wings of the building. In 1910 the estate was sold to Friedrich Gustav Eckstein. Eckstein then demolished Sewell's original building to replace it with the current Mansion. Built largely on the same foundations the new Mansion had 91 rooms and was said to have cost £250,000. Such was the splendour of the new mansion that it became known as "The Wonder House of Surrey"