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{{Short description|English manor house and estate}}{{EngvarB|date=February 2018}}{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}}{{coord|51.347|-1.411|display=title|region:GB-HAM_scale:5000}}{{refimprove|date=May 2012}}(File:Stargrove - geograph.org.uk - 62433.jpg|thumb|A distant view of Stargroves)Stargroves (also known as Stargrove House) is a manor house and associated estate at East Woodhay in the English county of Hampshire. The house belonged to Mick Jagger during the 1970s and was a recording venue for the Rolling Stones and various other rock bands, as well as a filming location for Doctor Who.

History

The Goddard family owned the estate from 1565 until about 1830. Oliver Cromwell stopped at Stargroves after the second battle of Newbury (27 October 1644), and was entertained by the owner, John Goddard; the basin or china bowl in which his breakfast (toast and ale) was served is in the custody of the rector besides some letters referring to the incident. Edward Goddard owned the estate from 1778 to 1788. It was also owned by Capt. Sir F. H. W. Carden, 3rd Baronet.'Parishes: East Woodhay', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 (1911), pp. 305–307. Retrieved 12 June 2010.In the early 1840s Stargrove House was destroyed by a fire. Around 1848 a new manor house was built, designed in an ornate, Victorian Gothic style in the manner of a French château. The new manor house was bought by a Captain Ramsay, and in 1879, the house was sold to Sir Frederick Henry Walter Carden, who made alterations to the house and landscaped the park.WEB, Stargrove,weblink Hampshire Garden Trust, 9 November 2016, Stargroves is noted for its revivalist architectural features such as castellations, corner turrets and Tudor revival windows. Today, Stargrove House is a Grade II listed building.WEB, Stuff, Good, Stargrove – East Woodhay – Hampshire – England {{!, British Listed Buildings|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-138344-stargrove-east-woodhay-hampshire#.WCMbx_SLUX0|website=www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk|access-date=9 November 2016}}

1970s

Mick Jagger purchased the estate in 1970 for £55,000 from Sir Henry Carden.BOOK, Christopher Sandford, Christopher Sandford (biographer), The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years,weblink 26 April 2012, Simon and Schuster, 978-0-85720-104-1, 189–, The Rolling Stones recorded at Stargroves before their move to France in spring 1971. These recordings were laid down via a mobile recording studio control room located in a custom-built truck known as the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. The band recorded a number of albums and singles at Stargroves, including various tracks that appeared on Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, and It's Only Rock 'n Roll.BOOK,weblink Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones, Janovitz, Bill, 23 July 2013, St. Martin's Press, 9781250026323, 191, 269, en, Other notable musical acts also recorded at Stargroves using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. The Who recorded songs such as "Won't Get Fooled Again"WEB,weblink Won't Get Fooled Again, and "Pure and Easy" in 1971. In 1972, Led Zeppelin recorded songs that later appeared on the albums Houses of the Holy (1973), Physical Graffiti (1975) and Coda (1982). In the 1970s, Sir Mark Palmer and his band of wealthy New Age travellers and their horse-drawn caravans spent much time at Stargroves.The house's exterior and its grounds were extensively used for filming the Doctor Who serials Pyramids of Mars (1975) and Image of the Fendahl (1977) from Tom Baker's era as the Fourth Doctor.BOOK, Cameron K., McEwan, Unofficial Doctor Who: The Big Book of Lists, 2015, 166, Race Point Publishing, 978-1631060427,

Later owners

Jagger sold Stargroves in 1979, for £200,000, to Boxford businessman John Varley. It was then bought by Swedish businessman, Claes Bourghardt, in 1984, for £525,000.WEB,weblink Grumbles over work at east end mansion, Newbury Today, Jane Meredith, 18 February 2014, 16 February 2017, He sold it 4 years later 1988 to Paul Dupee Jr, the owner of the Boston Celtics for £2,250,000 who sold it in 1993 after having created a basketball court and expansive gardens.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}In 1998, Rod Stewart bought Stargroves for £2.5 million from Frank Williams but never moved in. He separated from his then wife, Rachel Hunter, soon after exchanging contracts and sold it.WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140513022105weblink">weblink dead, 13 May 2014, Moving on: Jagger edge, The Sunday Times, Anna Mikhailova, 19 August 2012, 16 February 2017, In 2012, Stargroves was sold for more than its £15 million listing price to a member of the Sackler family.WEB,weblink The OxyContin Clan: The $14 Billion Newcomer to Forbes 2015 List of Richest U.S. Families, Forbes, Alex Morrell, 1 July 2015, 16 February 2017,

References

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External links

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