History of Brodsworth Hall

Brodsworth Hall was built between 1861 and 1863 for Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson who inherited the estate in 1859 from his Great Grandfather Peter. Peter who died in 1797 had left an eccentric will which led to the passing of the Accumulations Act of 1880, and the subsequent court cases inspired Dickens in his writing of Jarndyce V Jarndyce in Bleak House. Charles Sabine built an ultra modern family home in the Italian style, with large windows, exterior roller shutters, flush toilets, the very lates in Victorian technology.
The House interior is marbled in the corridors and stairs, the room walls have silk damask or hand made wallpaper, the house has a collection of Italian statues bought from the Dublin exhibition of 1865, and 17th century Dutch and Flemish paintings along with Victorian Family and equestrian pictures.
After falling into disrepair due to mining subsidence and failing finances, following the death of the last resident in 1988 her daughter gave the house and gardens to English Heritage, who have secured and conserved the property. The house showing all its faded glory and the gardens restored to their Victorian splendour.
The gardens are open all year round (at weekends in winter)and the house and gardens every day except Mondays from Easter to September/October.