Modern house builders can learn a lot from Brodsworth Hall in South Yorkshire - Yorkshire Post Letters

The Yorkshire Post Letters
By The Yorkshire Post Letters
Published 1st Sep 2023, 11:45 BST
From: Dave Ellis, Magdalen Lane, Hedon.

To feel and enjoy the magnificent experience of living life in Victorian times, a visit to Brodsworth Hall and garden near Doncaster in South Yorkshire is a must.

It should be on the places to visit before you die along with Wentworth Woodhouse in South Yorkshire.

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The Thellusson family had made plenty of money from women's hosiery and coal mining, and it is incredible that the present house built between 1861 and 1863 was ahead of its time.

Brodsworth Hall in South Yorkshire. PIC: Jonathan Gawthorpe.Brodsworth Hall in South Yorkshire. PIC: Jonathan Gawthorpe.
Brodsworth Hall in South Yorkshire. PIC: Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Features like windows in the flat roofs over the billiards room an