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Bramshill House, south façade with oriel window in centre

Bramshill House, in Bramshill, northeast Hampshire, England, is one of the largest and most
important Jacobean prodigy house mansions in England. It was built in the early 17th century by
Baron Edward la Zouche of Harringworth, but was partly destroyed by fire a few years later. The
design shows the influence of the Italian Renaissance, which became popular in England during
the late 16th century. The house was designated a Grade I listed building in 1952.

The mansion's southern façade is notable for its decorative architecture, which includes at its
centre a large oriel window above the principal entrance. Interior features include a great hall
displaying 92 coats of arms on a Jacobean screen, an ornate drawing room, and a 126.5-foot-long
(38.6 m) gallery containing many portraits. Numerous columns and friezes are found throughout
the mansion, while several rooms have large tapestries depicting historical figures and events on
their panelled walls. The house is set in 262 acres (106 ha) of grounds containing an 18-acre
(7.3 ha) lake. The grounds, which received a Grade II* listing in 1984, are part of a Registered
Historic Park that includes about 25 acres (10 ha) of early 17th-century formal gardens near the
house. The wider medieval park was landscaped from the 17th to the 20th century and contains
woodland.

Bramshill appears to have been a local sporting and social venue since the 16th century. The
cricket ground at the house played host to a first-class match in 1823 when an early Hampshire
team played an England XI, and it hosted three other matches in 1825–26. During the Second
World War, the mansion was used as a Red Cross maternity home, before becoming the
residence of the exiled King Michael and Queen Anne of Romania for a number of years. It
became the location of the Police Staff College in 1960, and was later home to the European
Police College. As a result, many campus buildings have been added to the estate. Owing to
escalating maintenance costs the property was sold to the heritage property developers City &
Country in August 2014. Among the 14 ghosts reputed to haunt the house is that of a bride who
accidentally locked herself in a chest on her wedding night and was not found until 50 years
later.

Contents
 1 Location
 2 History
o 2.1 Original house
o 2.2 New manor house
o 2.3 Sporting events
o 2.4 Modern times
 3 Architecture
o 3.1 Exterior
 3.1.1 North and south
 3.1.2 East and west
o 3.2 Interior
 3.2.1 Drawing room and library
 3.2.2 Staircase and first floor
 4 Grounds and garden
 5 Legends
 6 References
o 6.1 Notes
o 6.2 Bibliography
 7 External links

Location[edit]

Bramshill House
Location of Bramshill House in Hampshire
Bramshill House is at the approximate centre of a triangle formed by Reading, Basingstoke and
Farnborough, about 47 miles (76 km) by road southwest of central London.[1][2] It lies to the
northeast of Hartley Wintney, east of Hazeley off the B3349 road, southeast of the village of
Bramshill, which lies on the B3011 road. Three main lanes approach the property: Mansion
Drive from the B3011 in the southwest, Reading Drive South from the B3011 to the east of
Bramshill village from the north, and the shorter Pheasantry Drive which approaches it from the
southeast from Chalwin's Copse, just north of the course of the River Hart. Within the grounds is
a private lane, Lower Pool Road, which connects Mansion Drive to Reading Drive South,
passing the pond and several outer buildings.[2] The latitudinal and longitudinal location is
51°19'57.9"N 0°54'43.2"W or also, 51.332759, -0.911991.

History[edit]
Original house[edit]

The 1086 Domesday Book lists one of the two manors of Bromeselle (the Anglo-Norman
spelling of Bromshyll) as held by Hugh de Port,[3] whose family possessed it for nine
generations. The last of the de Port line, William de Port (who had assumed the name St. John),
died in 1346 without leaving a male heir.

In the early 14th century, Sir John Foxley (c. 1270 – c. 1325), Baron of the Exchequer,[4] built
and endowed a chapel in the village of Bramshill.[5] His first wife, Constance de Bramshill, may
have been the heiress of the Bramshill family. Their son, Thomas Foxley (c. 1305–1360),
became MP for Berkshire in 1325, and was appointed constable of Windsor Castle in 1328, soon
after the accession of the 14-year-old Edward III.[6] In 1347 he obtained a licence to build a
manor house or small castle at Bramshill, which included a 2,500-acre (1,000 ha) wooded park.[7]
The house, built between 1351 and 1360, had thick walls, vaulted cellars, and an internal
courtyard measuring 100 by 80 feet (30 by 24 m).[6] Based on the similarity of the surviving
vaults under Bramshill House and those under what became the servants' hall and steward's room
at Windsor Castle, it may have been a copy of William of Wykeham's work there.[8][9]

The estate remained in the hands of the Foxley family and their heirs, the Essex family,[10] until
1499, when it was sold to Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney. Giles's son Henry Daubeney
(later Earl of Bridgewater) sold the property to Henry VIII, and in 1547 Edward VI granted the
estate to William Paulet, whose heirs sold it in 1600 to Sir Stephen Thornhurst of Agnes Court,
Kent.[11]

New manor house[edit]

Lord Zouche bought the property from Sir Stephen Thornhurst in 1605.

In March 1605,[12] Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, a favourite of James I,[13] bought the
property from Thornhurst. A house was earlier planned on the site for Henry Frederick, Prince of
Wales (1594–1612),[13] whose heraldic feathers are displayed above the central pediment.[14]
Lord Zouche demolished a large part of the building and began to build the Bramshill House of
today. Henry Shaw describes the new house which Zouche built as a "specimen of Elizabethan
[sic] architecture [which] merits particular attention, exhibiting all the stateliness for which the
period referred to was remarkable, with a suite of apartments both large and lofty. The amplitude
of its dimensions indicate a princely residence."[15]

An inventory taken in 1634 after Zouche's death listed the library as having 250 books and a
collection of mathematical instruments, and revealed that the maids' chamber was of a very high
standard.[16] James Zouch, grandson of Edward la Zouche, sold the property to the Earl of Antrim
in 1637, at which time the house's furniture was valued at £2,762.[17] During the reign of
Charles I, the house was partly destroyed by a fire. On 25 June 1640, Lord Antrim sold
Bramshill for £9,500 to Sir Robert Henley.[18] In 1673 it was the property of his son, Sir Andrew
Henley, 1st Baronet.[19]

Sir John Cope purchased the property in 1699, and his descendants occupied the premises until
1935. The Cope family shortened the wings on the south side in 1703, converted most of the
chapel to a drawing room and introduced a mezzanine on the west side during the 18th century.
They were responsible for much of the interior, with significant renovation work done in the 19th
century and in 1920.[20] After his victory over Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington was offered his
choice of house by Parliament; he visited Bramshill but in 1817 chose Stratfield Saye instead.[21]

Sporting events[edit]
Sports on the Troco Terrace in the 17th century. Left: A game of bowls. Right: Fencing practice.
Lithograph and watercolour by Joseph Nash.

Numerous paintings and prints depict games and social events taking place on the lawn; one such
painting by Joseph Nash, now in the National Fencing Museum, depicts 17th century rapier
practice, with a number of upper-class men, women and children as spectators.[22]

The cricket ground at the house first played host to a first-class match in 1823 when an early
Hampshire team played an England XI. Hampshire won by five wickets.[23] Two further first-
class matches were played there in 1825, when Hampshire drew against Godalming and defeated
Sussex.[24] A final first-class match was held there in 1826 when a combined Hampshire and
Surrey team played and lost to Sussex.[25]

Modern times[edit]

In 1935, the house was purchased from the Cope family by Ronald Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron
Brocket, the house's last private owner.[26] It was used by the Red Cross as a maternity home
during the Second World War, after which it became the home of the exiled King Michael and
Queen Anne of Romania for several years.[27][28]

Bramshill House became a Grade I listed building on 8 July 1952,[29][30] and was acquired by the
British government the following year[31] as a dedicated site for police training.[32] It became the
location of the National Police College in 1960.[33] From 2005, two buildings on the site housed
the European Police College (CEPOL) until this was moved to Budapest in 2014.[34][35]

By the late 1980s the estate had become expensive to maintain, and according to John Wheeler,
Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, by 1989 it was "in a poor state of repair".[36] The
Daily Mail reported that the police were criticised for subsequent lavish spending on the estate,
including £1,800 for a beehive, £750,000 on restoring a bridge and £2 million for the access
drive.[28] In July 2013 the Home Office placed the house and estate on the market for
£25 million, citing costs of £5 million annually to run it.[28] It was sold to the heritage property
developers City & Country in August 2014.[37] In 2018, the house, with a reduced estate of about
90 acres, was put back on the market with a guide price of £10 million.[38][39]

Architecture[edit]
Exterior[edit]

The front (southern) façade of Bramshill House

The 15-bedroom Bramshill House is one of the largest and most important Jacobean mansions in
England,[21][40] described as one of the "glories of English architecture" by the historians Anthony
Blunt and James Lees-Milne.[41]

The architecture of the three-storey building was inspired by the Italian Renaissance, and was
executed mainly by German builders.[42] It is approximately 140 feet (43 m) in length.[19] The
design is traditionally attributed to the architect John Thorpe, although no records remain to
confirm the attribution.[43]

The building stands on the edge of a plateau, overlooking the park to the south.[44] The plan of
the house is unusual, partly because of its incorporation of the earlier building; it extends at right
angles to the primary (southern) façade.[43] The elevations are symmetrical, facing outwards, but
the interior court is narrow, and projecting wings lie at either end of the eastern and western
sides.[29]

Bramshill House is three storeys high on the southern main entrance side and two storeys high to
the north and east. There are three vaulted cellars to the west.[29] The house is built of red brick
laid in English bond dressed with stone, with ashlar quoining at the corners of the wings. Stone
dressings are featured on numerous large mullion windows. An open carved parapet surmounts
the building.[19] The roof consists of red tiles, and there are large gables on the west side.[43] The
chimney stacks are rectangular.[29]

North and south[edit]

The central bay and loggia of the south entrance

The north façade has three bays separated by windows and features a loggia, typical of early
17th-century houses, with a central arched entrance to accommodate coaches.[43] The central bay
is crowned by an ornamental pierced parapet below a niched Dutch gable, which shelters a small
statue of Lord Zouche[43][45] or James I.[46] There are small obelisks at either side of the gable.[29]
Thorpe originally intended the main entrance of the house to be on this side, building on the
gatehouse of the earlier Foxley house.[47]

The southern façade was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "among the most fanciful pieces of
Jacobean design in [England]".[40] It is three storeys high and features three sets of three bays in
either wing, with five inner sections.[48]

The outer two of the inner sections feature eight angular windows, aligned in rows of four on the
first two floors and then a row of four windows on the top floor. The inner two sections have the
same layout on the first and top floors with eight windows aligned in rows of four on the first
floor and four windows on the top floor, but the ground floor features two arches, which form
part of the central loggia.[48]

The stone central bay, 20 feet (6.1 m) wide, is emphasised by superimposed double decorated
pilasters on all floors and the central archway of the loggia in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
orders,[49] surmounted by a florid perforated pediment. In addition there is an oriel window on
the first floor above the main entrance.[40][46]

An important difference from the other sides of this building is a terrace, 25 feet (7.6 m) in
width, between the projecting wings, a kind of architectural foreground to the garden.[46] The
terrace is bounded by a 3-foot-3-inch-high (0.99 m) balustrade.[50] The arcade on the terrace of
the southern front is a good example of Italian domestic architecture, used in villas.[51] The
triglyphs and ornamented metopes, together with the simple capitals of the columns, indicate the
Doric order, but are light enough to be Ionic.[52] The south entrance was the model for
Darlington, the Crocker-McMillin Mansion in New Jersey, US, built between 1901 and 1907.

East front: the Troco Terrace is above the basement-level brick wall, parallel to the façade

The southernmost of two arcaded openings on the Troco Terrace

East and west[edit]

The east façade is the longest, about 124 feet (38 m) wide, and two storeys high.[46] It features
four full-height angular bays with two windows between, while its upper walls have two arches
set within a rectangular panel.[29] On this side there is a Troco Terrace with a lawn, as well as
two arcaded openings at the side on either wing of the house.

The southernmost arcaded opening contains a bench with eight arches and has three tables, one
of which is older and octagonal.[53] Carved in the wall at the side is a frieze consisting of four
squares, each depicting an animal: a lion, an elephant, a wild boar and a camel.[54]

The west façade dates to the 18th century and is the only one with multiple gables;[43] the
windows on the ground floor are sashed.[29]

Interior[edit]
Ground floor plan in the 1880s

Two of the rooms have large tapestries on their walls depicting historical figures and scenes.[55]
Those in the drawing room contain scenes from Roman history and were based on designs by
Peter Paul Rubens, who supervised the work in Brussels. These tapestries were initially made for
Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester, Zouche's brother-diplomat, but in the end he rejected
them for another set; how the first set came to Bramshill is not known. Rubens's sketches for the
first and last tapestries in the series are in Alte Pinakothek (Munich).[56]

The ground floor contains, in the west section, the former dining room and kitchen. The openings
in the wall between the billiard room and the garden room had been blocked up but the rooms
were reconnected in the 19th century under Sir William Henry Cope, uncovering an original
doorway with a four-centred pointed arch.[57] Cope applied arabesque patterns to the panelling in
the garden room, which he had traced when two of the bedrooms were being repainted.[58] The
billiard room has a hidden door leading to the original entrance on the north side of the house
through the Foxley gatehouse into the interior courtyard, and several doorways remain in the
kitchen and housekeeping areas.[59]

The Great Hall, to which an arcaded porch gives direct access, retains the basic design of the
original construction.[60] It has a dais[60] and a Jacobean stone screen, 13 feet (4.0 m) high,
decorated with 92 shields. Resident families emblazoned the shields with the arms of ancestors
and family members.[43][61][62] The entablature of the screen has a double row of 40 sculptured
shields and has a depth of 2 feet 6 inches (0.76 m).[52] Beyond the dais, double doors lead into the
Terrace Hall at the foot of the staircase.[57] Across from this is the former dining room,
containing a large tapestry, believed to have been made by an English artist, "representing forest
scenery in very subdued colours".[57] During the time of the Cope family in the 1880s, the
kitchen near the south hall was used as a dairy. The kitchen and the adjoining room had back-to-
back fireplaces.[63]

Drawing room and library[edit]

The drawing room in 1903

The drawing room, containing four bay windows of different sizes, is panelled with oak for its
entire height of about 16 feet (4.9 m).[64] One of the upper panels, surmounted by its Corinthian
entablature, is a frieze depicting a fig, grape, and pomegranate, each with foliage and blossoms.
One of the lower panels, part of the dado in the same room, has a section of projecting
mouldings. The upper panel is 2 feet 10 inches by 2 feet 4 inches (.86 m × .71 m); the lower,
2 feet 7 inches by 2 feet 6 inches (.79 m × .76 m).[64]

The massive chimneypiece in the drawing room is classically designed, believed to be inspired
by one of the great Italian architects of 16th-century Mannerism, Giacomo Barozzi da
Vignola.[65] It is two storeys in height, the lower being Doric and the upper Ionic. The
distribution of the members is regular, and the shafts of the columns are variegated marble. The
upper compartment of the chimney-piece is composed of separate pieces of the same diversified
material, and the frieze of the upper order also consists of coloured marble in the centre. The
fireplace is 6 feet (1.8 m) wide and 4 feet 8 inches (1.42 m) high, and retains the ancient
andirons, used for burning wood. These are large and well adorned, particularly in the lower
part.[65]

The ceilings of the drawing room and library are the most elaborate in the house.[65] The plaster
frieze in the library also displays fine workmanship; 1 foot 7 inches (0.48 m) wide, it is designed
in a striking arabesque pattern, with an evident Florentine influence.[64] In the 1880s the library
had a collection of 5,000 volumes, about half the number the Cope family owned at the time.[66]

Staircase and first floor[edit]

First floor plan in the 1880s

The standards and balusters of the stairs on the north side of the hall came from Eversley Manor
House and probably date to the mid-17th century,[43] although the treads are original to the house
and possibly mid-16th century.[60][67] The walls above the stairs and on the first-floor landing
contain some very large paintings, including several portraits.[68]

Beyond the staircase are the state rooms[68] and what was known as the "Wrought Room".[58] The
room has an ornamental ceiling with a Renaissance chimneypiece.[58] Two of the bedrooms, the
two "White Rooms", were originally connected to what was called the Flower-de-luce Room, but
the doors have been boarded up.[69]

The Long Gallery fills the first floor of the northern range: 126.5 feet (38.6 m) long and with a
richly decorated stucco ceiling and a complex wooden chimneypiece,[70] it formerly contained a
"very curious collection of portraits of distinguished characters".[15][71]

Also on the first floor is the "Chapel Drawing Room" in the south wing, connected to the
Drawing Room.[72] The Copes created this room by reducing the size of the original chapel,
which is entered through it.[73] The current chapel has an altar reredos with paintings of the
Virgin Mary, St. Stephen, St. Mary Magdalene and St. John the Evangelist, by Alexander Rowan
and dated by Pevsner to about 1840.[70][74] The tapestry in the chapel room is older than the
house, and was assessed by an expert as dating to 1450 or earlier; in the early 19th century it had
hung in the Red Drawing Room.[75] When the chapel ceiling was restored by Sir William Cope, it
was discovered that one section of the plaster work had previously been replaced with carved
wood.[75] The large window in the south wall of the courtyard was presumably moved from the
original chapel.[70]

Grounds and garden[edit]

View of Bramshill House from its grounds to the south

Gate of the park, 1899

The house is set in 262 acres (106 ha) of grounds,[76] which include an 18-acre (7.3 ha) lake north
of the house.[77] The grounds form part of a Registered Historic Park that received a Grade II*
listing in 1984; this was subsequently upgraded to Grade I in September 2017. Under this
designation are the 25 acres (10 ha) of early 17th-century formal gardens near the house, the
wider 490-acre (200 ha) medieval park, landscaped from the 17th to the 20th century, with 250
acres (100 ha) of woodland[78] and buildings including an icehouse and a folly known as Conduit
House.[76] Parts of the park have been used for commercial softwood production since the 19th
century.[78]

To the west of the house is Peatmoor Copse and to the east Bramshill Forest,[2] and the grounds
contained what was known as the "Green Court" and the "Flower Garden" at the time of William
Henry Cope in the 1880s. The Grade I listed gatehouse dates to the time of the Foxleys.[79] The
fir trees in the grounds are reputed to have been planted "as a memento of his former home" by
James I, who brought them from Scotland.[71][80] The formal gardens were first laid out by
Edward la Zouche, a horticulturist. Sir John Cope redesigned the gardens and continued the
planting of trees in the park. At the close of the 18th century the grounds were re-landscaped to
be less formal, and some areas in the south were returned to parkland.[9]
Main entrance

Bramshill Park was conceived as a "hunting box" for Henry Frederick and became a popular
estate for hunting.[71] On 24 July 1621, while hunting in the park, George Abbot, Archbishop of
Canterbury, accidentally shot and killed one of the gamekeepers with his crossbow.[12] An
inquiry cleared him of murder.[64] Another notable clergyman/hunter who frequented Bramshill
was Charles Kingsley, rector of Eversley,[81] who hunted fox and deer and collected butterflies
there[82] and frequently took his family and friends.[83] Kingsley was reportedly especially
enamoured of the fir trees, which he considered "a source of constant delight",[80] fondly naming
them "James the First's gnarled giants".[84] In the 19th century, Sir John Cope, a friend of
Kingsley's, was known as a supporter of the fox hunt and especially as a breeder of fox
hounds.[85][86] The opening of the season at Bramshill in the late 1840s was noted in the British
hunting press.[87]

The main avenue approaches from the southwest, through an arched gateway formed by two
Grade II listed early 19th-century lodges,[88] before crossing the Broad Water formed by the
River Hart by a Grade I listed early 19th-century bridge with two arches.[89] There are separate
listings for other structures near the house, including the Grade I listed early 17th-century triple-
arched gateway on the route to Reading to the northeast of the house,[90] Grade I listed early
17th-century boundary walls and turrets to the south and west,[91] Grade II listed boundary walls
and gate-piers to the west, including the kitchen garden,[92] Grade I listed garden walls and
gateways to the north and east,[93] and the Grade II listed late 18th-century stable block to the
north.[94]

Legends[edit]
Bramshill has been cited as one of the most haunted houses in England.[95][96] According to one
UK police officer who worked at the college, 14 ghosts have purportedly been identified,
although another officer at the college did not take these suggestions seriously.[27] They include a
Grey Lady (one story suggests that her husband, a religious dissenter, was beheaded in the 17th
century) and a Green Man (a Cope family member who either drowned in the lake in 1806,
according to the journalist P. Lal, or threw himself off a cliff near Brighton, according to the
author Penny Legg).[27][97]

The Green Man, dressed as his name suggests, reportedly manifests near the lake, as does the
ghost supposed to be that of a gardener who drowned there.[97]
The Grey Lady allegedly haunts the terrace, the library, and the chapel. Legg suggests that she
has a young and beautiful appearance, with a sad, tear-stained face and golden hair, and smelling
of the lilies of the valley; Lal argues that she has reddish-brown hair and wears a grey, sleeveless
robe.[27][98] The Grey Lady's husband has been reported to haunt the stables and the chapel
drawing room.

The ghost of a young child allegedly haunts the library and the Fleur de Lys room; the child has
supposedly been heard crying, and attempts to hold visitors' hands. Folklore holds that the Grey
Lady was the child's mother.[98]

A lady dressed in the style of Queen Anne, and a knight in armour, are reported to have been
seen in the chapel drawing room. The chapel itself is purportedly frequented by the ghost of a
lady in 17th-century dress, and by that of a nun.

A young man dressed in 1920s tennis garb, reputed to be a Cope family member who fell from a
train, has supposedly been seen in the reception area of the house. A small boy documented to
haunt the terrace is said to have fallen from the roof sometime in the 18th century.[97]

In addition, Bramshill House was cited by the historian William Page as a possible location for
the Legend of the Mistletoe Bough, a ghost story associated with several English country
mansions.[7] This legend tells of a bride who supposedly hid in a wooden chest during a game of
hide and seek on her wedding night. In the case of Bramshill House, the story has it that this
happened at Christmas time, and that the bride was found fifty years later still wearing her
wedding dress and with a sprig of mistletoe in her hand; the chest is on display in the entrance
hall.[27]

The woman is sometimes identified as John Cope's daughter Anne, who married Hugh Bethell of
Yorkshire.[99] An alternative claim is that she was Genevre Orsini, who was married in 1727, and
that her ghost came to Bramshill from Italy together with the chest.[27] In his monograph on the
house, the Victorian writer Sir William Cope preferred this theory and added that the chest on
display was not the original, which had been proved large enough by "a woman of comely
proportions" who had tested it by lying down in it, but which had been taken away by Sir Denzil
Cope's widow in 1812.[100]

The ghost of the bride is referred to as the White Lady, and she is said by Legg to haunt the Fleur
de Lys room.[101] According to Legg, Michael I of Romania asked to be moved to another room
during a stay there, in order to not be disturbed by the young woman in white who passed
through his bedroom every night.[98]

An old man with a grey beard, thought by Legg to be the father or husband of the White Lady, is
reported to stare through windows and at the Mistletoe Chest.[98]

References[edit]
  This article incorporates text from publications now in the public domain: Henry
Shaw's Details of Elizabethan Architecture (1839), and Sir William Henry Cope's
Bramshill: Its History & Architecture (1883).

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