Bradgate House - Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, UK
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Bradgate House is a 16th-century ruin in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire. It is believed that the house was the birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, later Queen, ruling for a mere 9 days before being overthrown by Mary I.
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Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/01/2018
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"Bradgate ruins used to be a magnificent Tudor house, similar to Hampton Court and other big houses of the period.
The house was one of the earliest unfortified mansions to be built in England, and one of the first houses of its size and scale to be built using bricks.
The building work was started by Sir Thomas Grey at around 1499 and his son finally completed it in 1520.
The house had two main storeys with attics and was about 200 feet in length from east to west, with two wings joined by a great hall and a parlour on the north side.
The house suffered fire damage in 1694.
It was alleged that the first wife of the second Earl of Stamford started the blaze, however it was repaired in time for King William III’s visit in 1696.
The house was left abandoned after the Fourth Earl inherited the title and moved with his family to Enville Hall in Staffordshire in 1739.
By 1790 the house was in ruins and slowly deteriorating, the ruins are now persevered by the Bradgate Park Trust.
Today, the outline of this Tudor house can still be seen, the only building that kept its roof is the chapel, although it has been altered over many years.
A memorial to Sir Henry Grey and his wife, who was cousin to Lady Jane Grey the Queen of England for nine days, remains in the chapel."
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