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202: 727: 31: 822: 489:. A school was begun, and would remain at Brereton for nearly half of a century. Mrs M. Fletcher would later purchase the house from Mrs Botfield-Winder, and in doing so, formally create the Brereton Hall Private School for Girls. Mrs Fletcher later wrote about Brereton's "graceful surroundings". The school closed in 1994 as it was impossible to renovate and update the Grade I listed building without large restoration costs. 306: 442: 1026: 650: 363: 631: 209: 800:
Brereton is reputedly "haunted" by a number of ghosts, most famously the "muzzled bear" that supposedly roams the grounds at Brereton. This involves the local story in which William Brereton killed his valet in a temper, his punishment being to fight a bear. Brereton was given three days to weave a
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Brereton later became the retreat of a pop star who built a recording studio at the back. Andy Wood purchased Brereton in 2000, and had since been a family home, changing hands several times over the last two decades. Planning permission for a hotel was rejected in 2017, and Brereton Hall has since
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when Jane Brereton married Sir Robert Holte. This placed their surviving child Sir Charles Holte as heir to the estates of both Brereton and Aston. After his death, Brereton was given to Heneage Legge, who let it to the husband of Sir Charles' daughter, Abraham Bracebridge. Bracebridge would later
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1585 altered 1829 and late C19. Stone-dressed brick; leaded roof to front range, slate roofs to cross-wings. The present building suggests a reversed E plan, probably with a great hall behind the gateway forming the central bar, demolished and replaced by an 1829
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wrote that the "dead loges upsends, from hideous depth", forming a "sore signe" that the "lord last thread is spun". The event would cease after the death of the Brereton heir. The story became famous, appearing and being popularized in the works of
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was the inspiration for the novel, Aston and Brereton were, at one time, both owned by Abraham Bracebridge – who inspired the novel's title. It is thought that Irving was additionally inspired by Brereton, although he never visited.
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The house had once again declined into a state of disrepair. Brereton-Howard would later be killed in the First World War. The house was passed to a relative named Norman McLean, and in turn to a cousin, Garnet Botfield-Winder.
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were to be sold. It is thought that Brereton was scheduled to be auctioned, although this fell through. The lawyer himself lived at the house for a period of time. Records of this that survive are scarce and uncertain.
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John Howard purchased Brereton. The actual date of Howard's purchase is debated, although Goodwin-Brereton writes in 2020 that this occurred in 1830 (or perhaps 1829), and not 1817 as initially thought.
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to the Breretons as a memento of the visit." Sir William then supposedly built it into the wall of the room in which the queen had slept. The symbol of a fan can be seen throughout the house.
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Brereton is on the mend. Not, as you might expect, divided into apartments, but as a single grand house waiting for a modern-day Cheshire magnate or football king with price tag to match.
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As Brereton had been neglected and unused since 1817, it was then in "a state of disrepair". Howard restored the house and carried out a variety of alterations; namely replacing the twin
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muzzle to contain the animal, which proved to be successful and saved his life. The symbol of the muzzled bear can be seen throughout the house, as well as in a window in the nearby
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of Elizabeth I can be seen in the central panel, which hint towards the story being genuine. Goodwin-Brereton writes of a further tradition that Elizabeth I "presented her
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term, although its meaning remains unknown. The Croco was first recorded in the same year that the house was built. The Croco later flows into the
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forms of planting landscape remain, although the majority was changed during the period in which the house and grounds were a school.
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Sir John Savage, and Savage's daughter, Margaret – whom Brereton would later marry. A portrait of Sir William, dated 1579, with a
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wrote that the house "appears to be just the entrance range of an intended courtyard house with four grand fronts."
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There is, however, documented evidence to prove that Elizabeth I was in London at the time of her supposed visit.
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made a royal visit to Brereton. The house originally had an E-plan before the Howards' restoration, and the
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wrote of a tradition involving the Brereton Lake, also known as "Bagmere". It was written that before an
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Information about the stained glass from the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) of Great Britain
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event would occur, in which the lake would turn to blood and strange reflections would appear.
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landscape. Although, given the history of the house and the family, it is likely that a
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A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Titles ..
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Brereton after 1829, showing the battlements which replaced the prior cupolas
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come up for sale a number of times. Brereton is no longer open to the public.
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own Brereton when it was bequeathed to him by Legge, upon the latter's death.
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Brereton in 1818, perhaps published to popularise the house for the sale
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central gateway. The octagonal turrets are linked by a bridge and are
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Brereton was put up for sale in 1817, with an advertisement placed in
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runs through the grounds at Brereton. "Croco" is most probably a
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John Howard was the first owner of Brereton to not have direct
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which runs along the front of the house. This leads to the
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Brereton Hall was for sale at the time, at £6.5 million.
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that totals 15,000 lines of verse, written entirely in
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and a chimney piece carved with the Brereton emblem, a
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family heritage, making their fortune entirely through
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stated that Bracebridge's estates of both Brereton and
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is unknown, Sir William modelled the house entirely on
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Burke, Bernard (1866). "Brereton – Baron Brereton".
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is rumoured to have made a royal visit to Brereton.
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Two fireplaces elsewhere are carved in a 900:Their master is faire warn'd his will to make. 888:Sore signe it is the lord's last thred is spun. 898:But when that failes my dead hopes up to take, 894:Then from his depth with force in her begunne, 624:wrote that Brereton is "not easily forgotten". 957:"William Brereton" appears as a character in 8: 896:Long-drowned hopes to watrie eyes it lends; 481:a group of children to Brereton during the 375:Brereton was passed to the Holte family of 1579:Dictionary of National Biography Volume 53 928:It is thought that Brereton also inspired 20: 1554:Johnston, James B. (James Brown) (1915). 1040:Grade I listed buildings in Cheshire East 1110: 1108: 1106: 1104: 1102: 1100: 1098: 1076:"Brereton Hall (Grade I) (1229329)" 440: 361: 304: 1056: 974:The earlier William Brereton served as 626: 559:. 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Red brick house with taller gatehouse and a hedge in front
Prodigy house
Brereton
Cheshire
53°10′50″N 2°19′44″W / 53.1805°N 2.3288°W / 53.1805; -2.3288
Sir William Brereton
Elizabethan
Listed Building
1229329
Brereton Hall is located in Cheshire
Elizabethan
prodigy house
Brereton Green
St Oswald's Church
civil parish
Brereton
Cheshire
National Heritage List for England
listed building
Domesday Book
Old English
enclosure
briars

Sir William Brereton
architect
Rocksavage
guardian
cameo
Queen Elizabeth

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