The Elizabethan House

The Elizabethan House, seen in the drawing above, was built around 1536 and demolished in 1861

The priory was dissolved in 1536, at which time the property included ‘the house, gardens, barns and orchards, pools ... with the mill and the fishery in “Le Pole” called Wroxall Poole with one horsemill’ (Ryland 1903). The estate was sold between 1542 and 1544 to Robert Burgoyne, one of Henry VIII’s Commissioners in Warwickshire.

Burgoyne died in 1545 and was succeeded by his son, also Robert, who took up residence at Wroxall in about 1568 (Ryland 1903), demolishing part of the monastic church and building a manor house to the south. Robert Burgoyne II died in 1613, when he was succeeded by his son, Roger. In 1642 his son, John, who had inherited Wroxall in 1636, was created a baronet. Sir John’s son, Sir Roger, who succeeded in 1657, fought for the Crown during the Civil War and around 1660 imparked roughly 60 acres (25 hectares) around the manor house. This park is described as ‘lately impaled’ in a lease of 1664 (Ryland 1903). (Source parksandgardens.ac.uk)