 Tyntesfield is a Victorian Gothic Revival house and estate near Wraxall , North Somerset , England . The house is a Grade I listed building named after the Tynte baronets , who had owned estates in the area since about 1500 . The location was formerly that of a 16th @-@ century hunting lodge , which was used as a farmhouse until the early 19th century . In the 1830s a Georgian mansion was built on the site , which was bought by English businessman William Gibbs , whose huge fortune came from guano used as fertilizer . In the 1860s Gibbs had the house significantly expanded and remodelled ; a chapel was added in the 1870s . The Gibbs family owned the house until the death of Richard Gibbs in 2001 . 
