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Brocket Hall is an architecturally Grade I-listed classical four-to-five storey country house set in Brocket Hall Park and Garden at the northern end of the urban area of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, from London by road. In its grounds are two golf courses and seven smaller listed buildings, such as the early 17th-century house, which now incorporates a fine-dining restaurant called "Auberge du Lac", Brocket Lea and The Temple built by Paine later that century. It is owned on a long leasehold by Club Corporation of Asia (CCA), with the future reversionary interest set to arise in the middle of the 21st century owned by a trust of the line of peers who took their name from it in 1933. ==Development== ;Buildings Sir Matthew Lamb, 1st Baronet, purchased the estate in 1746, complete with Brocket Lea, the older house on the south side of the upper course of the river visible from almost all of the estate.〔Brocket Lea, Grade II listing 〕 He built the hall as it is seen today around 1760 to the designs of the architect Sir James Paine. Brocket Hall is a tall red brick neoclassical house in a fine landscape setting with a Palladian bridge. The interior of the house is mostly not on a grand scale but the exceptions are the main staircase and the Grand Saloon that was decorated specifically for entertaining royalty. The walls are lined with silk, the original furniture was made by Chippendale, the ceiling was painted by Francis Wheatley and the state banqueting table seats eighty people. The cost of this one room is recorded as £1,500 which equated to more than the cost of a substantial manor house at the time. Paine also built the Temple with an Adam-style plaster ceiling, elliptical porch that has niches either side of Victorian period half glazed door and a pediment above its eastern entrance, typical of the finest garden temples of the era.〔(Garden) Temple Grade II * listing 〕 ;Park The pleasure grounds were laid out initially in the mid C18 as parkland with many clumps of trees and singles, being remodelled as a pleasure circuit with a waterside walk as part of Woods' campaign of the 1770s.〔 The park surrounds the Hall which is set in open parkland with the remains of scattered parkland trees. The parkland is since the mid-1990s largely overlain by golf courses and is bounded by substantial woodland belts.〔Park and Garden mentioning all buildings and structures in overview - Grade II listing 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brocket Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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