The Brockhampton Estate is a National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust property in Herefordshire, England, and is to the north of the A44 road, A44 Bromyard to Worcester, England, Worcester road, opposite the northern edge of Bringsty Common and east from the town of Bromyard.
The significant aspect of the Estate is Lower Brockhampton, a Timber framing, timber framed manor house that dates to the late 14th century, surrounded by a moat, and entered by a restored gatehouse at the front of the house. The house is surrounded by of Arable land, farmland, some of it Landscaped parkland, parkland, with specimen trees and of woodland. In 2010, the National Trust undertook a major restoration of the house using traditional wattle and daub building methods.
The Brockhampton Estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1946 by Colonel John Lutley, in whose family it had been for more than twenty generations, although the name of the family had changed several times through marriage.
The site of the medieval village of Studmarsh is thought to be on the Estate; in 2012, an archaeological dig unearthed the foundations of two buildings that may have been part of the village.
Brockhampton and the Barneby family
Thomas Barneby, who was killed at the battle of Towton in 1461, married Isabella Whitgreave of Bockleton, heiress of the Brockhampton estate. One of his descendants was William Barneby, Sheriff of Worcester in 1605, who married Amphylis Lyttleton, a daughter of Sir John Lyttelton (1519–1590).
Amphylis Barneby's niece Bridget Marrow was a gentlewoman at the court of Anne of Denmark from 1603, and became keeper of jewels of Anne of Denmark, her jewels. Amphylis wanted her nephew to join the household of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, Prince Henry. She wrote to her kinswoman, Meriel Lyttelton asking for advice. Lyttleton's reply was discouraging, saying that Amphylis's nephew Thomas Cornewall of Eastham, Worcestershire, Eastham and Burford House, Shropshire, Burford had misinformed her. Cornewall had joined the Prince's household in 1603. However, when the time was right, Lyttleton's brother Henry Bromley (died 1615), Henry Bromley of Holt, Worcestershire, Holt would help her.
[Henry Ellis (librarian), Henry Ellis]
''Original Letters Illustrative of British History'', 2nd series vol. 3 (London, 1827), pp. 218-9
: Mary Anne Everett Green, ''Calendar State Paper Domestic, Elizabeth, 1601-1603'' (London, 1870), p. 22: Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool
''The House of Cornewall'' (Hereford, 1908), pp. 217-8, 221
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References
External links
Brockhampton Estate information at the National Trust
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Houses completed in the 14th century
National Trust properties in Herefordshire
Grade I listed buildings in Herefordshire
Grade I listed houses
Country houses in Herefordshire
Historic house museums in Herefordshire