Brocksford Hall
Encyclopedia
Brocksford Hall is a country house about one mile (1.6 km) east of Doveridge
village, in the south west corner of Derbyshire
county, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
architectural practice of Douglas & Fordham. It has since been used as a school. Students moved to the school after the war. Students had been evacuated into rural Derbyshire. The headmaster of Birkdale School
, Mr John Gibson Roberts, moved Birkdale pupils evacuated to Derbyshire into Brocksford Hall School. Birkdale continued at Oakbrook under another headmaster. The independent preparatory and pre-preparatory boarding school closed in 1994. Magfern Estates purchased the hall and 35 acres (141,640.1 m²) of the estate in the same year. The buildings were converted into private apartments and houses.
style and constructed in Ruabon
red brick with much blue brick diapering and Hollington
stone dressings. Externally - the entrance (north) front has five bays, symmetrical in massing, but, not in detail, plus, one further gable to the left. The garden (south) front has three bays, symmetrical in massing, but, not in detail, plus a pyramid roofed water tower to the right. A half timbered gatehouse with clock atop (unlike original architects drawing) leads to the stable yard (quad) where a further half timbered outbuilding can be seen. Internally - there be some jacobean woodwork believed to have come from Fenton Hall, also of note be an eighteenth-century staircase to one side (west) of the entrance hall. http://www.books.google.com/books?isbn=0140710086 It was the last house designed by Douglas on such a large scale.
Doveridge
Doveridge is a village and Civil parish in Derbyshire, United Kingdom, near the border with Staffordshire and about east of Uttoxeter. Its name comes from its bridge over the river Dove , a tributary of the River Trent....
village, in the south west corner of Derbyshire
Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...
county, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
History
The house was built in 1893 for Charles William Jervis Smith and designed by the ChesterChester
Chester is a city in Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77,040 inhabitants, and is the largest and most populous settlement of the wider unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 328,100 according to the...
architectural practice of Douglas & Fordham. It has since been used as a school. Students moved to the school after the war. Students had been evacuated into rural Derbyshire. The headmaster of Birkdale School
Birkdale School
Birkdale School is a Christian public school for boys in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire in England, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference...
, Mr John Gibson Roberts, moved Birkdale pupils evacuated to Derbyshire into Brocksford Hall School. Birkdale continued at Oakbrook under another headmaster. The independent preparatory and pre-preparatory boarding school closed in 1994. Magfern Estates purchased the hall and 35 acres (141,640.1 m²) of the estate in the same year. The buildings were converted into private apartments and houses.
Architecture
The house was built in JacobethanJacobethan
Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by John Betjeman to describe the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance , with elements of Elizabethan and...
style and constructed in Ruabon
Ruabon
Ruabon is a village and community in the county borough of Wrexham in Wales.More than 80% of the population of 2,400 were born in Wales with 13.6% speaking Welsh....
red brick with much blue brick diapering and Hollington
Hollington, Derbyshire
Hollington is a village and civil parish near the town of Uttoxeter, in the English county of Derbyshire.-External links:...
stone dressings. Externally - the entrance (north) front has five bays, symmetrical in massing, but, not in detail, plus, one further gable to the left. The garden (south) front has three bays, symmetrical in massing, but, not in detail, plus a pyramid roofed water tower to the right. A half timbered gatehouse with clock atop (unlike original architects drawing) leads to the stable yard (quad) where a further half timbered outbuilding can be seen. Internally - there be some jacobean woodwork believed to have come from Fenton Hall, also of note be an eighteenth-century staircase to one side (west) of the entrance hall. http://www.books.google.com/books?isbn=0140710086 It was the last house designed by Douglas on such a large scale.