Like others I am new to this thread but found it as a result of seeking information about Woodhouse in Temple Guiting/Guiting Power. I am a doctoral student at Oxford working on a group of about eighty smaller Georgian houses and their families in Gloucestershire between 1680 and 1760. Woodhouse is one of those houses on my list, which I identified from the National Monuments Record website (
www.images ofengland.co.uk). The number is 128768. It is also covered briefly (from an architectural perspective) in the Buildings of England series, Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds, p 395. I have not yet done a great deal of research on this house, but was doing field work recently to have a preliminary look at it. I did not know exactly where the house was located and could not find it so the discussion of mapping was very helpful.
In any event, I am particularly interested to know more about the house's builders/owners earlier in the C18, and was fascinated with the work of some of those who have posted messages. Has anyone traced their ancestry, as residents of Woodhouse, earlier than the 1790s? If anyone has further information about the history of the house or the families who built or occupied it earlier in the C18 I would be very grateful.
Also, it might interest some that a similar structure that is part of my study, Barton House, located a short distance away at Barton seems to be having expansive building conservation work done (see below). I wonder if there might have been any connection between the two. If anyone knows anything about that it would interest me as well.
Finally, would it be worth writing to the Guiting Manor Amenity Trust for further information?
Very many thanks,
Stephen