Rushbrooke Hall
Demolished in 1961, sixteenth century Rushbrooke Hall once occupied a moated site within a landscape park that is known to have been in existence in 1703, but probably had much earlier origins. The mansion was altered in the early-eighteenth century to the fashionable Georgian style, although maintaining its basic U-shaped plan. The moat survives within the gardens of a new house that was built attached to the walled garden during the twentieth century. Now substantially reduced in size and turned to arable, the park expanded and contracted over time and once had a number of vistas and drives, some of which survive as tracks and paths, although its entrance lodges have gone. It also included a surviving remote early-eighteenth century canal but a smaller canal just west of the mansion was in-filled during the nineteenth century. The irregularly-shaped pleasure garden enclosure included a surviving walled garden with attached stables, orchard, belts of trees and shrubs and a raised terrace and walkway. In the first half of the twentieth century many of the estate village homes were rebuilt in mock-Tudor and Modernist styles.
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