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Brodsworth Hall & Gardens: (South Yorkshire) ~ Brodsworth Hall has survived almost intact since the 1860s. Opened for the first time in 1995, Brodsworth hall when bequeathed to English Heritage, the conservation policy was aimed at preserving the Hall's grandeur. In the kitchen, visitors can picture how meals were made at the time of Mrs Beeton and which still contains a vast range of cooking utensils also deep in the servants wing, it is easy to imagine life below stairs.
The entrance hall, with its gold, red and marbled walls, provides a dramatic backdrop to another of the house's features, the succession of white marble statues with typically Victorian themes.
Rich decorative schemes appear everywhere in the house: in the grand reception rooms, bedrooms and private quarters. The drawing room, with a dividing screen of corinthian columns, red silk damask on the walls, chandeliers and guilding, is a monument to the designers ambitions. The dining room, intended as much for show as for eating, contains some of the finest paintings in the house. Away from the finery of the reception rooms is the library and the morning room. Each has original wallpaper, a hand - painted pattern of roses and trellises resembling leather wallcoverings. In its day the gentlemen would relax in the billiard room, which has survived remarkably intact. By the mid 19th century a billiard room was considered an essential part of a country house, and Brodsworth retains its original table, along with the leather bound book in which scores have been recorded since the 1880s.
The bedrooms have always been identified by a numbering system. Although much of their original decoration has been lost, many pieces of mahogany furniture remain.
The gardens include croquet lawns and a large formal flower garden; a quarry garden and a formal rose garden.
Facilities Available
Facilities Details
Toilets: Adapted WC in toilet block.
Shop/tea room: Level access. Access Access to house: All the ground floor is level and there is lift access to first-floor family bedrooms but not to the servants’ bedrooms. Wheelchairs are available.
Gardens: The terrace and formal gardens are accessed on tarmac paths, wheelchair pushers recommended. The quarry garden has compacted hardcore paths, but the fern dell has a gravel path not suitable for wheelchairs;
Yachting exhibition: Level access. Parking 250m from entrance. Disabled visitors can park or be set down near the hall entrance Visually Impaired Visitors It is possible to handle the collection in the family room, including the recreated fabrics, carpets and wallpapers.
Open times.
30th March - 27th October: - 1st November: daily.
1 April - 1 November: Tuesdays - Sundays and bank holidays.
1pm - 6pm. Gardens and tearoom open 12 noon.
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