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| Name | BRODSWORTH HALL | ||||
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| Localisation | Latitude: 53.554912 Longitude: -1.2337517 National Grid Reference: SE 50860 06749 Map: Download a full scale map (PDF) |
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| Overview | Heritage Category: Park and Garden Grade: II* List Entry Number: 1001250 Date first listed: 25-Nov-1991 |
Gardens and a landscape park created as the setting for a new country house, laid
out in the mid C19 and incorporating earlier work.
HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT
The Brodsworth Hall estate was bought by Peter Thellusson (1735-97), a wealthy city
banker, shortly before his death. Following a long legal battle over Thelluson's will,
it was eventually inherited in 1859 by his grandson, Charles Sabine Thelluson (1822-85),
who demolished the Georgian house which stood near to the church and, in 1861, began
work on a new house on a new site. The designs for the house were supplied by an Italian
architect, Chevalier Casentini, the work being executed by the architect Philip Wilkinson.
The mansion, along with the new gardens which accompanied it, was completed by 1870.
Having passed to various members of the family, the Hall and its gardens were donated
to English Heritage by Mrs Williams in March 1990 and the site remains (2000) in their
care.
DESCRIPTION
LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING Brodsworth Hall lies c 8km north-west
of Doncaster, bounding the south side of the village of Brodsworth. The 102ha site
is bounded to the north partly by the B6422 which leads west into a village lane,
to the east by the lane connecting Brodsworth and Hickleton, and on the other sides
by agricultural land. Formerly (OS 1931) the south-west boundary was formed by the
large Brodsworth Wood, the vestigial remains of which now form a belt around the west
and part of the south boundary. The setting is largely rural, with the A1 Doncaster
bypass running north to south 700m east of the east boundary.
ENTRANCES AND APPROACHES The main approach to the Hall enters at a gateway (early
C19, listed grade II) off the public road on the eastern boundary of the site, 700m
east of the Hall. The drive enters between a pair of stone gate piers supporting iron
gates, these piers being flanked by a further pair of piers supporting side gates,
leading to stone wing walls sweeping out to terminate at matching end piers. From
here the east drive curves west across the park, through a second stone gateway (late
C18 and later, listed grade II) with stone piers and an iron gate standing 160m east-north-east
of the Hall, which leads into the pleasure grounds and to the turning circle below
the east front. A porte-cochère encloses the main entrance on the east front.
A service drive links the Hall with the home farm and the mid C18 stable block (listed
grade II) standing 150m away on lower ground to the north-west.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING Brodsworth Hall (Chevalier Casentini 1861-3, listed grade I) stands
towards the north-west corner of the site, a position offering views over the parkland
to the south and east. The two-storey stone Hall, built in Italianate style, comprises
a rectangular block with the long garden front and central garden door to the south,
and a service wing attached to the north.
GARDENS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS Brodsworth Hall is surrounded by a ring of gardens and
pleasure grounds which is divided from the park to the south and east by estate fencing.
Three sets of marble steps, accompanied by pairs of urns (listed grade II), lead down
from the terrace beneath the south front to the south lawn. The steps, like the marble
greyhounds (listed grade II with the steps) which flank them, were sent by Casentini
from Italy in 1866. A fourth set of steps links the terrace below the west front and
the croquet lawn. Beyond this west lawn lies a formal flower garden, the focus of
which is a tall, three-tiered fountain above an octagonal pool (listed grade II) aligned
on the axis of the west front. To either side are monkey-puzzle trees around which
are set four urns (listed grade II) and a scheme of elaborately shaped rose beds cut
into the turf.
Between the formal garden and the western boundary of the site lies The Grove, a quarry
converted into an extensive rock garden overhung with mature beech and yew trees and
laid out with paths, steps, and bridges. At the southern end, standing on a mound,
is a summerhouse in the style of a Doric temple (listed grade II) with a toolshed
below. At the northern end is a summerhouse, dating from c 1860, with a Venetian window
and a Swiss-style roof. A path leads out from the north end of The Grove south-east,
down the rose walk which forms the central feature of a flower garden, through a wooded
copse to the west side of the Hall.
Below the south terrace, running west to east alongside the hedge which forms the
southern edge of the gardens, is a walk leading west to The Grove and east round a
shrubbery, continuing eastwards via the arboretum to the church which stands within
the pleasure grounds 150m north-east of the Hall. The shrubbery, planted mainly with
evergreens and decorated with statuary (listed grade II), borders a lawn to the east
of the Hall and turning circle. Much of the statuary in the gardens seems to have
been sent from Italy in the 1860s, and the gardens and pleasure grounds have changed
little since first having been laid out in the 1860s.
PARK The park, dotted with a mixture of specimen trees, slopes down from the shrubbery
east of the Hall to the shelter belt which runs along the eastern boundary. The central
section of the belt is laid out as an avenue. To the south, the park stretches as
a flat expanse to a plantation at the south corner of the site known as Pegdale which
leads north to Brodsworth Wood and Chicken Farm Plantation, providing shelter along
the western boundary.
KITCHEN GARDEN The brick-walled kitchen garden stands 400m north-east of the Hall,
a little to the east of the village of Brodsworth. Situated in the lowest part of
the park, it runs parallel to the public road which forms the northern boundary of
the site. A track leads from the entrance in the centre of its southern wall, west
through a gateway to the Home Farm.
REFERENCES
Country Life, 134 (3 October 1963), pp 803-07; (10 October 1963), pp 876-9 M Girouard,
The Victorian Country House (1979), pp 236-42 Brodsworth, guidebook, (English Heritage
1995)
Maps OS 6" to 1 mile: 3rd edition published 1931
Description written: November 1991 Amended (SR): February 2000 Edited: October 2004
This garden or other land is registered under the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953 within the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens by Historic England for its special historic interest.