Field Place is a Grade I listed house in Warnham, West Sussex, England. It is the birthplace of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, born there in 1792.
The house dates back to the thirteenth and fourteenth-centuries.[1] It has been restored to the state it was in when Shelley lived there.[1]
Field Place was built in about 1353 by Richard Felde, and this part is now the east wing.[2] It was later owned by the Mychel family who had added the south wing by 1525.[2] In 1729, it was bought by Edward Shelley.[2] On his death, the house was inherited by his nephew Sir Timothy Shelley (1753–1844), and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was his eldest son.[2] The farm buildings and much of the land is now owned separately.[2] Percy Bysshe Shelley spent his youth at Field Place, but never lived there as an adult.[3] His son Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet (1819–1889) inherited the property.[3]
G N Charrington, who had been a tenant, acquired the property in 1929, and restored the gardens by 1949.[2] In 1982, Kenneth Pritchard Jones bought the house and restored it.[2]