Birch Grove

This article is about the country house in West Sussex. For other uses, see Birch Grove (disambiguation) and Birchgrove.

Birch Grove House
Photograph of the house from the gardens taken in 1962
TypeHouse
LocationHorsted Keynes, West Sussex, England
Coordinates51°03′23″N 0°00′38″E / 51.0563°N 0.0106°E / 51.0563; 0.0106
Built1926
ArchitectHerbert W. Cash
Architectural styleQueen Anne Revival
OwnerJames Hay
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameBirch Grove House
Designated25 October 1988
Reference no.1372075
Location of Birch Grove House in West Sussex

Birch Grove, in Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, England, is a country house dating from 1926. It was the family home of Harold Macmillan, the British prime minister from 1957 to 1963, who died there in 1986. During Macmillan's time, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Jawaharlal Nehru and John F. Kennedy stayed as guests at Birch Grove. The house is now owned by the Scottish entrepreneur James Hay. Birch Grove is a Grade II listed building.


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