What is recorded here

Bartholomew Read built a moated brick house for himself soon after 1478, but Henry VIII seized the idea and expanded it into Oatlands Palace between 1537 and 1544. The king made the privy court, middle court and outer court into a queen’s palace beside Hampton Court and Nonsuch, yet the grand building vanished in 1650 after the Civil War. Excavations later recovered floor tiles, a Bellarmine jug and sealed garderobe waste from the 1640s, preserving a sudden slice of palace life that demolition could not erase.

The National Heritage List for England records Oatlands Palace as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Oatlands Palace was built by King James I of England in the early 17th century as a royal hunting lodge and country residence. It is remembered as one of the last great Tudor palaces and for its historical association with the Stuart monarchy.

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