Ladbroke Hall

Ladbroke Hall is an 18th century country house, now converted into residential apartments, situated at Ladbroke, near Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire. It is a Grade II listed building.

The Ladbroke estate was the home of the Palmer family having been purchased by William Palmer in 1633. The present house was built in a Georgian style in the 18th century. It was designed to an H-shaped plan, the entrance frontage being two storeyed with gabled attics, and seven bays, the three central bays recessed.

In 1825, a later William Palmer of Ladbroke inherited the Derbyshire estate of his aunt Helen Morewood at Alfreton Hall and took the surname Palmer-Morewood. His grandson Charles Rowland Palmer-Morewood was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1871 and of Warwickshire in 1880. The 1881 British Census discloses his residence on the 360 acre estate with a retinue of thirteen servants.

References

* [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=307148&mode=quick English Heritage: Images of England, architectural description of listed building]
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/Report.aspx?compid=57114 "A History of the County of Warwick" Vol 6 (1951) pp143-7 British History Online]