were laid out before 1755 by Thomas Wright. In 1791 a block was added in the centre of the north front, for Michael Hicks Beach to designs of John Soane. The three-storey house is built in brick and has five bays to its south entrance front, where there is a pedimented porch. An 18th-century dovecote stands in the grounds to the north of the house. The large stable block, added some time between 1734 and 1740, is also in brick, and surrounds four sides of a courtyard with a narrow opening to the north. A colonnade links the house and stables. Following the purchase of much of the parish by the War Department in 1898, the house and stables became the home of the Cavalry School from 1904. It was subsequently used by the Machine Gun School, and in 1975 began to serve as the Officers' Mess for the Support Weapons Wing of the School of Infantry. Avon camp closed in the 1990s and the house, stables and grounds were sold by the Ministry of Defence. In 2004 the house was converted into two homes and the stables into seven. In 1986 the house was recorded as Grade II* listed, and the stables and dovecote Grade II. A November 2020 article in Country Life magazine provided an update, with photographs, on the property. By that time the 11,188 square foot home had been extensively renovated; the north wing remained a separate residence. Parish church A church at this location was recorded in the Domesday survey of 1086. By that time, it was in ruins but was rebuilt during the Norman era; additions were made in the 1200s and later. The Church of All Saints is built of rendered flint, has a tall west tower and its lower parts survive from the 11th century. The nave and chancel were built in the 13th century, and the aisles rebuilt in the 15th. Restoration in the 19th century, some by C.E. Ponting, included replacement of the roofs and chancel arch, and demolition of the north porch. The peal of bells in the tower was increased from five to six in 1911, and two were recast at the same time. Of the others, one is dated 1585 and another 1695. The church was recorded as Grade I listed in 1964 as an "Anglican parish and prebendal church. C11, C12, C13 and C15". From the