Greystoke, (Greys Mallory) Banbury Road, Bishops Tachbrook, Warwickshire

Originally part of the Warwick Castle Estate Set in 20 acres. Elizabethan /Jacobean style. The 17th century-inspired gables to Greys Mallory at Bishops Tachbrook in Warwickshire are deceptive. What looks like a Jacobean mansion is, in fact, an Edwardian country house built in the grand turn-of-the-century manner. The property was built in 1904 for an Allan Edward Bachelor tp the dessigns of Percy Richard Morley-Horder, who had also been employed to build Mallory Court, nearby. In a rural, elevated setting, four miles from both the county town of Warwick and Leamington Spa, Greys Mallory, once known as Greystoke, is one mile from the village of Bishops Tachbrook. The house is built mainly of brick which has been  rendered, all under a clay tiled roof. 

At the entrance gate to Greys Mallory are two lodge cottages designed by the same architect as the principal residence, and in complementary rendered brick, both with three bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen and one reception room. These flank the opening to the tree-lined avenue, an impressive introduction to the property's main entrance off the Banbury Road. Outside is a stable yard reached through a gated archway, topped by a clock tower with weather vane. There is a large double garage with loft, four stables, tack room and the two-bedroom stable cottage. The remaining cottage, New Lodge, has two reception rooms and two first-floor bedrooms pThe house was badly damaged by fire in December 2010.lus large garden. Greys Mallory's main gardens were originally laid out in the Edwardian style and include a yew hedge, lawn, rose garden, former hard tennis court and fish pond. Also included within the 20 acres are paddocks and woodland. 

*Allan Edward Batchelor (1853-1916), of Hill Wootton House (Warks) and later Greystoke near Warwick (which was built for him by Percy Morley-Horder in 1904-06), born 31 July 1853; educated at Clifton College, Exeter College, Oxford (matriculated 1872; BA 1877) and Middle Temple (called, 1879); barrister-at-law; an officer in Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry (Lt., 1885); JP for Warwickshire (from 1898); married, 14 April 1896 at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge (Middx), Veronica Luce (1870-1951), third daughter of Col. Sir William Thomas Makins MP, 1st bt., of Rotherfield Court (Oxon) and had issue two daughters; died 15 November 1916; will proved 3 April 1916 (estate £46,400);