The architect who built Tyringham Sir John Soane once proclaimed that his time at Tyringham was ‘six of the happiest years of my life’. It is easy to see why he thought that the peace of this stunning Georgian house, surrounded by lush green Buckinghamshire countryside is a haven of tranquillity. The estate has the river Great Ouse winding its way around its borders, the Tyringham bridge also built by Soane as part of the original estate goes over the magnificent river.

In the 1920’s Frederick Konig, commissioned another of England’s greatest architects Sir Edwin Lutyens to construct a huge outdoor swimming pool and two impressive pavilions along with extensive landscaping. Lutyens built two classical pavilions of limestone and Portland stone, one was used as a bathing pavilion for the outdoor pool and the other as a temple of music.