The Vyne

The Vyne
The north front
Type	Country House
Location	Sherborne St John
Coordinates	51°18′25″N 01°05′19″W / 51.30694°N 1.08861°W / 51.30694; -1.08861
OS grid reference	SU 63627 56816
Area	Hampshire
Built	1500–1520
Rebuilt	17th, 18th and 19th centuries
Architect	John Webb
Owner	National Trust
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name	The Vyne
Designated	26 April 1957
Reference no.	1296972
Location of The Vyne in Hampshire

The Vyne is a Grade I listed^[1] 16th-century country house in the parish of Sherborne St John, near Basingstoke, in Hampshire, England. The house was first built circa 1500–10 in the Tudor style by William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, Lord Chamberlain to King Henry VIII. In the 17th century it was transformed to resemble a classical mansion. Today, although much reduced in size, the house retains its Tudor chapel, with contemporary stained glass. The classical portico on the north front was added in 1654 to the design of John Webb, a pupil of Inigo Jones, and is notable as the first portico in English domestic architecture.

In the mid-18th century the house belonged to John Chaloner Chute, a close friend of the architectural pioneer Horace Walpole, who designed the principal stair hall containing an imperial staircase the grand scale of which belies its true small size. In 1958 The Vyne was bequeathed by Charles Chute to the National Trust.