Lower Brockhampton House at Brockhampton Estate

An Easter Bank Holiday Monday visit to Brockhampton Estate - National Trust.

Been meaning to visit this National Trust property for years.

At Lower Brockhampton.

The Manor House. Now all restrictions have gone, you can visit both floors.

The Brockhampton Estate is a National Trust property in Herefordshire, England, and is to the north of the A44 Bromyard to Worcester road, opposite the northern edge of Bringsty Common and east from the town of Bromyard.

The significant aspect of the Estate is Lower Brockhampton, a timber framed manor house that dates to the late 14th century, surrounded by a moat, and entered by a restored gatehouse at the front of the house. The house is surrounded by 1,000 acres (400 ha) of farmland, some of it parkland, with specimen trees and 700 acres (280 ha) of woodland. In 2010, the National Trust undertook a major restoration of the house using traditional wattle and daub building methods.

The Brockhampton Estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1946 by Colonel John Lutley, in whose family it had been for more than twenty generations, although the name of the family had changed several times through marriage.

The site of the medieval village of Studmarsh is thought to be on the Estate; in 2012, an archaeological dig unearthed the foundations of two buildings that may have been part of the village.

Grade I Listed Building

Lower Brockhampton House

Description

1.
1962 BROCKHAMPTON Lower Brockhampton House

SO 65 NE 9/127 9.4.52.

I GV
2.
Late Cl4 or early C15. 2 storeys. Timber frame and some rubble. Tile
and slate roars. Originally H-shaped plan with 2 cross wings, the west
wing has been demolished. Additions include late C16 north-west wing and
late C17 extension to east cross wing, and late Cl7 porch added to hall.
The exterior has exposed timber framing partly close-set, south gable has
carved barge boards and foiled timber-framing in gable head. Inside, the
hall is of 2 jays and east screen bay, there is 1 cruck-truss and cambered
collar beards with foiling above and 1 tier of foiled wind-braces. RCHM
Volume II, plates 39 and 81.

Lower Brockhampton House the Gatehouse and Chapel ruins form a good group.

Listing NGR: SO6875356000

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Taken in: UK / England / Brockhampton / Brockhampton Estate (show map)

Taken on: April 18, 2022

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Lower Brockhampton House

Grade I Listed Building

Grade I Listed

Timber frame and some rubble

Tile and slate roars « less

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