Horsley Towers is a majestic gothic manor house nestled in the rolling Surrey countryside. Architectural visionary William Currie commissioned the designer of the Houses of Parliament, Charles Barry, to build the towers in 1820. The architecture is original and pays homage to a Bavarian Castle in true Victorian Gothic style.Horsley Towers has previously been home to a long line of distinguished thinkers including Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and the first lady of computer programming. She was followed by, among others, Sir Thomas Sopwith, creator of the legendary Sopwith Camel aeroplane and the inspiration behind the modern jet fighter plane.
Architectural visionary William Currie, son –in-law of Lord Byron, commissioned the designer of the Houses of Parliament, Charles Barry, to build the towers in 1820. His wife Ada Byron, Daughter of romantic poet Lord Byron resided there in 1835 while she helped write the programme for the first ever mechanical computer.
In 1919, designer of the iconic Sopwith Camel bi-plane, Sir Thomas Sopwith contributed to the design of the modern-day Harrier Jump Jet resided at the Towers
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