Breamore House
| Breamore House | |
| Hampshire | |
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 Breamore House | |
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| Grid reference: | SU15271903 |
| Location: | 50°58’14"N, 1°47’2"W |
| History | |
| Country house | |
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Breamore House is an Elizabethan manor house in the south-west of Hampshire, to the north-west of Breamore village, north of Fordingbridge; west of the River Avon and close to the bounds of Wiltshire. The house is noted for its fine collection of paintings and furniture. Though it remains in private hands, the house is opened to visitors in season.[1]
Breamore's remarkable parish church, St Mary's stands in the grounds, and so away from the village it serves.
Breamore House was completed in 1583 by the Dodington family, and was built on the site of Breamore Priory. The building underwent minor changes in the 18th century and underwent considerable restoration after a major fire in 1856.
Purchased in the 18th century by Sir Edward Hulse, M.D., Baronet, and physician to Queen Anne]] and to Kings George I and George II,[2] the home is still inhabited by the Hulse family.
After marriage with Dame Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London and owner of Kew Palace, the Hulse family acquired many heirlooms of the Sussex Levetts, which are on display in the house.
Film location
Breamore House was used as one of the locations for the 2005 film Pride & Prejudice]].
Breamore was also a filming location for HBO's 2009 special on Winston Churchill entitled Into the Storm, where the house stood in for Chequers, the country residence of the Prime Minister.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Breamore House) |
- Breamore House
- Monumental inscriptions, Wilmington church graveyard, Kent Archaeological Society, kentarchaeology.co.uk
References
- ↑ Breamore House
- ↑ Sir Edward Hulse was the son of Edward Hulse, MD, physician to the Court of the William, Prince of Orange in 1677, and Treasurer of the Royal College of Physicians, London.