Bayons Manor

Bayons Manor located at Tealby, Lincolnshire, England was built in 1836 by the uncle of Alfred Lord

Tennyson, the Poet Laureate. Named after the Bishop of Bayeaux (William I's brother who originally owned the estate). It incorporated the original 17th century house. Bayons Manor includes a moat, over 60 rooms and a reduced size replica of Westminster Hall. It was opened to the public in 1934 and slipped into decline after the second world war when it was sold in 1944 and eventually dynamited in 1964.
 
The family connection is not through ownership but employment. Edward Wynne (1794-1860), my 4th great uncle was employed as the manors house steward. He appears in the 1841 and 1851 England census as such and living at the manor. I'm assuming he worked there up until his death about 1860.

The yellow Lincolnshire stone, from which it was built, was used to make a road on the estate. Elton John's songwriter Bernie Taupin living in a nearby cottage in Tealby and this was the origin of the song "Yellow Brick Road" - it was nothing to do with the Wizard of Oz.