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Brodsworth Hall

📍 Yorkshire, England

4.4 ★★★★½ 2,500 reviews

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Brodsworth Hall, near Brodsworth, 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, is one of the most complete surviving examples of a Victorian country house in England. It is virtually unchanged since the 1860s. It was designed in the Italianate style by the obscure London architect, Philip Wilkinson, then 26 years old. He was commissioned by Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson, who inherited the estate in 1859, but the original estate was constructed in 1791 for merchant and slave owner Peter Thellusson. It is a Grade I listed building.

A Victorian country house near Doncaster, conserved by English Heritage in its state of 'graceful decline' rather than restored. The interiors show how a once-opulent house grew 'comfortably shabby' over generations. Contents purchased by the National Heritage Memorial Fund. The award-winning restored gardens provide vivid contrast to the gently fading house.