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Joyce Grove at Nettlebed, near Henley-on-Thames is where James Bond creator, journalist and novelist Ian Fleming, was born in 1916.
The large Jacobean-style mansion house at Joyce Grove was built for wealthy Scottish financial trader Robert Fleming in 1904-5 on the site of an earlier building, shortly after his acquisition of the Nettlebed estate.
Built of red brick with Bath stone dressings, it was designed by the architect C.E. Mallows (1864-1915) of Bedford and London, and enlarged after a fire in 1913. It has been reported by the website www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk that Joyce Grove was "not, however, much liked by Fleming’s descendants, and in 1940 it was given to St Mary’s hospital in Paddington, before being converted into a Sue Ryder home" which it remains today.
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