Bromesberrow Place

This Regency Greek Revival house has an interesting social history as it was owned by David Ricardo.

Bromesberrow Place was built in 1768 but remodelled by George Basevi in 1810 for the economist David Ricardo in the severe Greek revival style. Basevi, Disraeli’s first cousin and a pupil of Sir John Soane, was only 25 at the time. He was later known his work on Belgrave Square, Pelham Crescent, London and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

The house has an interesting social history and with the surrounding estate has changed little over the course of the last 250 years. The park was laid out in 1768 influenced by Lord Coventry’s ‘Capability’ Brown landscape at Croome Court.

The park at Bromesberrow was extended by Hal Moggridge in 1993 to cover 200 acres with some 80,000 trees planted in the shelter belts.

The house contains Frances, Lady Daresbury’s collection of sporting art. Almost all the contents of the house date from 1770 to 1845. Some influence of the Arts & Crafts movement remain and there are family portraits by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais.

Visitors will have an introductory talk “The English Country house – Grandeur and Decline” followed by a tour of the ground floor, main staircase and one bedroom. This is followed by the garden tour which includes the vineyard in the walled garden and the 19th-century camelia house. The garden covers five acres.

Tour includes tea/coffee and biscuits.

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