Elvills (back)

Original titleElvills back Rt Hon Freemantle
Year painted1822
Museum reference numberPR151
Address and postcodeCastle Hill, Bishopsgate Road, Englefield Green, Egham TW20 0YN
Listed building numberGrade 224/10/1984List Entry: 1028964
Construction date of building depicted and major alterationsBuilt 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 useThe 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 statusPrivate home
Links and referencesSales 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.