HAMPTON / Hygrove HOUSE, Minsterworth 1950's (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, December 20, 2014, 01:55 (3627 days ago) @ Mike Pinchin

I'm afraid I can only offer a few historical details and nothing of specific help to your query, sorry.

Hygrove was the Nursing Home nr Minsterworth my paternal Grandmother lived her last few months during the mid 1990s, I didn't visit it, so need to ask my mother.

From the net, it's a Listed building dating from the early C18th, it was the seat of the Lord of the Manor;
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-134374-hygrove-house-minsterworth-gloucestershi
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/index.php/resources/kelly-s-directory-1879/68-minsterworth

Looks like the home may have closed in 2013, which explains it's odd appearance when I drove past in the summer!.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393294/Southern-Cross-Healthcare-destroyed-Ste...

This prior thread briefly mentions the House and in your timeframe.
www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=26245

From the excellent Victoria History website;.

"The lawyer Charles Barrow, lord of Minsterworth from 1750, moved from Churcham to establish Hygrove House as the new seat of the manor and was created a baronet in 1784. Charles Evans, lord of Minsterworth from 1789 and a partner of Gloucester’s Old Bank, was declared bankrupt in 1816, after which Hygrove House was let out to tenants, including a naval captain in 1823. The property was occupied by Revd Henry Barrow Evans, uncle of the absentee owner Charles Barrow Evans, in 1839 and in 1851 Henry was one of six householders in Minsterworth employing domestic servants. Hygrove House was again let in 1870 and remained so until the 1920s, when its last tenant employed a gardener and a chauffeur.26 In 1901 its occupant was Frederick Harvey, a cattle farmer, whose grandson, the poet F.W. Harvey (d. 1957), lived for a time at The Redlands and was buried in the churchyard. Following a spell during the Second World War as headquarters of an insurance company, Hygrove House became a nursing home."

http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/sites/default/files/work-in-progress/Minsterwort...

Gloster Archives may be worth a visit, searching their records for "Hampton House Minsterworth" gives 13 hits. The later ones suggest it was sold abt 1947, then various building works done, and then a "general correspondence file (Social services)" from 1948-1970.
Hopefully this link will take you to these hits;
http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archiv...

If you're after individual patient records I wonder if Glos Social Services would hold them ?. Be warned there is another Hampton House Care Home near Cheltenham. I presume this query relates to your earlier post wrt the 1957 death of Arthur H Curtis ?