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.

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Mottershead, John; Wienholdt, Barry (2002). Over Peover, a Cheshire village. Cheshire: Peover Superior Parish council. pp. 34, 35.
  2. ↑ de Figueiredo, Peter; Treuherz, Julian (1988), Cheshire Country Houses, Chichester: Phillimore, pp. 150–153, ISBN 0-85033-655-4
  3. ↑ Historic England, "Radbroke Hall (1139314)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 12 June 2014
  4. ↑ Historic England, "Rose Garden Wall and Pavilions at Radbroke Hall (1335826)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 12 June 2014
  5. ↑ Radbroke Hall, UK, Barclays, retrieved 12 June 2011

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Coordinates: 53°16′14″N 2°20′45″W / 53.27045°N 2.34597°W / 53.27045; -2.34597


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