Radbroke Hall
Radbroke Hall is a white French chateau-style former country house in Peover Superior, Cheshire, England. It takes its name from a stream, Red Brook, that runs through the grounds.[1]
It was built between 1914 and 1917 for a Manchester businessman Claude Hardy and his wife Olga, the architect was Percy Worthington.[2] Claude Hardy was a textile manufacture from Belfast who had a successful textile business in Manchester. Unfortunately Claude's death in 1916 left his widow to oversee the completion of the building work alone.[1]
The hall is built of Portland stone which was brought by train to a local railway station from Weymouth. Main features of the hall include a white marble staircase, a music room, and an oval dining room.[1] Around the hall were some twenty acres of grounds including attractive rose gardens and areas given over to a large variety of rhododendrons. The main hall driveway is flanked by large old beech trees.[citation needed]
The house and parts of the gardens are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated Grade II listed buildings.[3][4]
The Hardy family left the Hall mainly unoccupied during the 1920 and 1930's and sold it in 1955 to the Nuclear Power Company who built offices and a testing tower in the grounds.[1] Since 1972 the house has been used as offices and meeting rooms by Barclays.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Mottershead, John; Wienholdt, Barry (2002). Over Peover, a Cheshire village. Cheshire: Peover Superior Parish council. pp. 34, 35.
- ^ de Figueiredo, Peter; Treuherz, Julian (1988), Cheshire Country Houses, Chichester: Phillimore, pp. 150–153, ISBN 0-85033-655-4
- ^ Historic England, "Radbroke Hall (1139314)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 12 June 2014
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ Historic England, "Rose Garden Wall and Pavilions at Radbroke Hall (1335826)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 12 June 2014
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ Radbroke Hall, UK, Barclays, retrieved 12 June 2011
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