Brodsworth Hall
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Brodsworth Hall near the village of Brodsworth , 8 km north-west of Doncaster in the English county of South Yorkshire is one of the surviving copies of the komplettesten a country house from the Victorian period . It was designed in the Italianate style by London architect Philip Wilkinson , who was then 26 years old , and has remained almost unchanged since the 1860s. Wilkinson was commissioned to build the residence by Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson , who had inherited the property in 1859. The house has more than 30 rooms, from original furnished, grand reception rooms to the accommodation for the servants. Contemporary gardens surround the house, where special events take place throughout the summer.
The house is built of ashlar and has roofs made of lead and slate. The rectangular main building has two floors and a nine-part front facade. English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.
history
George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull , bought the Brodsworth property from Sir John Wentworth in 1713 and renovated the house. In the stock market crash of 1720, however, he lost all of his fortune and was forced to accept the position of ambassador to the Ottoman Empire . His younger son Robert took over the property in 1761 when he was made Archbishop of York and had a number of house and property improvements made. The house has been vacant since his death in 1777, and after his eldest son became 10th Earl of Kinnoull in 1787, he sold the property to '' Peter Thellusson '' (1737–1797) in 1790.
Peter Thellusson was born in Switzerland and settled in England, where he became director of the Bank of England and importer of tobacco and sugar. He made an unusual will, which his family took unsuccessfully to court and in which he ordered that his property should remain intact in a trust company for three generations. One of the later beneficiaries was his great-grandson Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson (the other was the 5th Lord Rendlesham), who inherited half of the property and the property in Brodsworth with the Georgian style house in 1859 . He had the existing house demolished and placed the order to build a new house, which was built from 1861 to 1863 and has been preserved to this day. (He also commissioned the construction of the largest private yacht ever built in the United Kingdom.) He was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1866 and 1867 . He and his wife left four sons, all of whom died childless. So the property was inherited to each of the sons one after the other. After the First World War , the maintenance costs rose so much that the owners closed parts of the house. After the death of the youngest son around 1930, the house fell to his nephew, Captain Grant-Dalton . He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1942 .
The last resident of the mansion was Sylvia Grant-Dalton , the widow of Captain Grant-Dalton, who had fought a futile battle against leaky roofs and subsidence for 57 years due to coal mining in the vicinity of the house. After her death in 1988, English Heritage bought the house and decided to leave the interiors “as is” instead of restoring or replacing parts. They show how a once opulent Victorian house got "comfortably" old.
Lord Markham built the Woodlands workers' settlement for the miners in the Brodsworth coal mines, which operated from 1905. Operations ceased in 1990. The Thellusson family, who leased the land and mining rights to the mining company, had All Saints Church built for the village in 1913 .
The third wife of the last owner, whose second wife was the last member of the Thellusson family, now lives on the property in a house that was built for the head gardener.
Individual evidence
- ^ Brodsworth Hall, Brodsworth . British Listed Buildings. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
- ↑ SLAVERY CONNECTIONS OF BRODSWORTH HALL . Susanne Seymour and Sheryllynne Haggerty, University of Nottingham. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
- ^ The Restoration of Brodsworth Hall & Gardens . Retrieved February 24, 2015.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 33'27.4 " N , 1 ° 14'15.4" W.