Bradgate Grand stable block, Leics, Jun14

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The Wombat

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I’ve been interested in looking at this place for a while, and the opportunity arose for JuJu, King Mongoose, and The Wombat to have an exploring evening. The property is secured with a field full of very angry, charging, bucking bulls which made entry swift, and exit a game of hide and seek.

Grade II listed, and built in 1856 for the seventh earl of Stamford on a lavish scale when he became master of the Quorn hunt., it cost £30,000, a massive sum for those days. Bradgate house was sold for demolition in 1925 and subsequently demolished, but the stable block survived to fall in into disrepair. a grandiose building even in its current dilapidated state. The royal commission of historic monuments surveyed it in 1992, but the building has not been restored. The Victorian society has named it as one of the 10 most endangered buildings in England and Wales, as reported by the BBC in 2010.


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thanks for looking
 
Considering how grand the stable block is, the house must have been really impressive. (I've just had a look on google images and indeed it was). Terrific pictures.
 
Considering how grand the stable block is, the house must have been really impressive. (I've just had a look on google images and indeed it was). Terrific pictures.

Yes, that always depresses me when I see this place. We know that in the first half of the 20th Century many old - even ancient - buildings were demolished in the name of "progress", but seeing the remains at Bradgate seems to make it somehow even more poignant.

Smashing pics.
 
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