Welders House was built between 1898 and 1899 for the politician
Charles Thomson Ritchie by his son-in-law
Mervyn Macartney. The governors of the
St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London bought Welders House in 1910 along with its 100-acre estate and the nearby 35-acre Jordans Farm. The farm was sold in 1911 to the
Religious Society of Friends. The house operated as a convalescent home for women with mild nervous maladies from 1911 to 1916. Welders Orchard of 11 acres and a field of 6 acres were purchased in 1917. The 5-acre Welders Wood was bought in 1920. The
War Office borrowed the house from St Luke's in 1918 for a Home of Rest for army nurses suffering from the mental strains of the
First World War. It closed in 1927 having been received by the Governors of St Luke's from the War Office in 1922. In 1940 the estate was leased to a couple who unsuccessfully planned to create a private nursing home, it was subsequently leased to the
Bon Secours Sisters in 1942 and was part of the St Joseph Nursing Home in nearby Beaconsfield until April 1947. It was owned by British two-time
Academy Award winning special effects director
John Stears in the 1980s. It was then bought by
Ozzy and
Sharon Osbourne in 1993. The house is built of red brick and has 2 storeys with Dutch style
gabled attics. It has been Grade II listed on the
National Heritage List for England since December 1984. In 2025, not long after his death and funeral, Ozzy Osbourne was buried in the grounds of Welders House near a lake. ==References==