Kilverstone Hall is a country house built in the early 17th century It was greatly enlarged by
Josiah Vavasseur, technical director of the arms manufacturing firm
William Armstrong Ltd. It included a parkland estate of . Upon Vavasseur's death in 1908 the house and park were inherited by Cecil Fisher, son of
Admiral Lord Fisher and adopted heir to Vavasseur. Admiral Fisher and his wife moved into the Hall by invitation of Cecil Fisher upon the Admiral's retirement as
First Sea Lord in 1910 and lived there until he was recalled as First Sea Lord upon the outbreak of
World War I in 1914. Lord Fisher's grave is in Kilverstone churchyard. The house was remodelled in a Jacobean style in 1913. It still remains the property of the Fisher family and has the mailed fist and trident of Lord Fisher's baronial crest on its gateposts. The house is
listed Grade II on the
National Heritage List for England. The Kilverstone Club in the grounds of the house is Grade II listed, as is the water tower, entrance lodge, stable block, and the base of a medieval cross near the hall. ==References==