| Original title | Elvills W. H. Freemantle M.P. |
| Year painted | 1822 |
| Museum reference number | PR158 |
| Address and postcode | Castle Hill, Bishopsgate Road, Englefield Green, Egham TW20 0YN |
| Listed building status | Grade 224/10/1984 List Entry:1028964 |
| Construction date of building depicted and major alterations | Built by Sir John Elwill 4th Baronet (d.1778) between 1758-1763 and designed by Stiff Leadbetter. Significant alterations in 1883. |
| History of ownership/residents and use | The house was built by Sir John Elwill, 4th Baronet, M.P. for Guildford 1747-1768. Sir John married Selina, Lady Ranelagh, in 1755. The house passed to their daughter Selina Mary Hervey. Upon her second marriage to Sir William Henry Fremantle, Selina Mary became Lady Fremantle. She held the estate until her death in 1841. In the 1860s the estate belonged to Admiral John Sykes upon whose death in 1863 it was sold. By this time the house was known as Castle Hill. A sales brochure describes the property as “being placed on a plateau, high, dry and healthy in the centre of a neighbourhood filled with the best Society…” The estate was owned by banker, George C. Raphael, in the late nineteenth century. Purchased by Ugland Marine Insurance in 1990s |
| Location’s present status | Private home |
| Links and references | Sales Brochure for Castle Hill, 1863, The Oliver Collection, RHUL. Another image of the house by F.W.L. Stockdale is held at the Surrey History Centre: SHC PX/56/56. |
