Ladbroke Hall
Ladbroke Hall is an 18th-century country house, now converted into residential apartments, situated at Ladbroke, near Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
The Ladbroke estate was the home of the Palmer family having been purchased by William Palmer in 1633. The present house was built in a Georgian style in the 18th century. It was designed to an H-shaped plan, the entrance frontage being two storeyed with gabled attics, and seven bays, the three central bays recessed.
In 1825, a later William Palmer of Ladbroke inherited the Derbyshire estate of his aunt Helen Morewood at Alfreton Hall and took the surname Palmer-Morewood. His grandson Charles Rowland Palmer-Morewood was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1871 and of Warwickshire in 1880. The 1881 British Census discloses his residence on the 360-acre (1.5 km2) estate with a retinue of thirteen servants.
References
- Architectural description of listed building, Images of England, English Heritage, UK.
- A History of the County of Warwick Vol 6 (1951) pp.143–147, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ British History Online, UK.
Coordinates: 52°13′29″N 1°23′38″W / 52.2248°N 1.3940°W