Built / Designed For: Percy Scawen Wyndham

House & Family History: Clouds cost the enormous sum of £80,000 to build, approximately £41 million in 2020 values using the labour value commodity index. The house was one of the major centers of the intellectual group known as The Souls, described succinctly by Daisy, Countess of Warwick: "This little coterie of 'Souls' loved literature and art, and perhaps were more pagan than soulful."

Collections: The contents of Clouds were sold at auction by Knight, Frank and Rutley in 1933 and included many pieces designed by William Morris for Clouds, most famously Morris & Co.'s "Greenery" tapestry (see "Images" section), which sold for 150 guineas. Considered one of Morris's tapestry masterpieces, "Greenery," designed by John Henry Dearle and made by Morris & Company in 1892 for Clouds. In 2006 the tapestry was sold by Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, to the London dealer Peter Petrou, who sold it in 2007 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in whose collection in remains today. The tapestry was loaned to the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1934 as part of a William Morris exhibition. Another version of this tapestry was woven in 1915 and given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1923 by Edward C. Moore, chief designer at Tiffany & Co.

Country Life: XVI, 738, 1904.

House Listed: Grade II*

Park Listed: Not Listed

Past Seat / Home of: The Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham, 1885-1911; Dick Wyndham, 1911-33.

Current Ownership Type: Corporation

Primary Current Ownership Use: Hospital / Care Home / Recovery Center

Ownership Details: Today a center for recovering addicts operated by Action on Addiction

House Open to Public: No

Phone: 03003-300-659

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.actiononaddiction.org.uk/

Historic Houses Member: No