| Eagle House | |
|---|---|
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Eagle_House_-_geograph.org.uk_-_329307.jpg) Eagle House in 2010 | |
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Somerset_UK_location_map.svg)  Location within Somerset | |
| General information | |
| Location | Batheaston |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°24′49″N 2°19′06″W / 51.41361°N 2.31833°W |
| Designations | Grade II listed[1] |
Eagle House is a Grade II* listed building in Batheaston, Somerset, near Bath.[2] Before World War I the house had extensive grounds.
When Emily Blathwayt and her husband Colonel Linley Blathwayt owned the house, its summerhouse was used, from 1909 to 1912, as a refuge for suffragettes who had been released from prison after hunger strikes. It became known as the Suffragette's Rest or Suffragette's Retreat. Emily Blathwayt was a suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union.
Between April 1909 and July 1911, trees were planted in the grounds to commemorate individual suffragettes; at least 47 were planted in a two-acre (8094 m2) site.[2] Known as Annie's Arboretum, after Annie Kenney, the trees were destroyed in the 1960s when a council estate was built. Only one tree, an Austrian Pine planted in 1909 by Rose Lamartine Yates, remains.[3]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
listwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Historic England. "No. 71 (Eagle House) including balustrade 2 yards in front of south elevation (1115252)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ Amphlett, D. G. (2014). Bath Book of Days. The History Press, pp. 179, 306.