Built for the industrialist Edward Brooke in 1870, this architecturally eclectic house passed through successive ownerships. Requisitioned by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, it was later purchased by the National Health Service and converted for use as a hospital. Abandoned in 2003 the property fell into severe disrepair before being salvaged by it’s new owner.
Having knowledge of it’s vivid history, our task has been to undertake, in close consultation with the local community, a full restoration of the house and the rehabilitation of it’s grounds.
Alongside reinstating grand original features lost from the building, a contemporary yet sensitive pavilion built in perforated brickwork is added where once there stood a glass and cast iron palm house.
