The Belhus estate was inherited through marriage by John Barrett, who rebuilt the house near to his death in 1526. The eastate was given the license to become a park in 1618, and the architect Sanderson Miller (1716-80) and landscape designer Lancelot Brown (1716-83) worked on a project to improve the park between the years 1744 and 1777, led by Thomas Barrett-Lennard (Lord Dacre). The house was occupied by the military and suffered bomb damage during the Second World War, and was demolished in 1957. The park is still in use today, and owed by the local authority. The image shows a three-storey elevation with square hood-mould over the windows and a large four-storey tower in the centre with capped pinnacles on each corner. In the foreground is a garden bird bath or fountain, and a man and woman sat on a bench.
This is part of the Series: KON01/01 Negatives; within the Collection: KON01 Judge Edwin Max Konstam Collection
© Historic England Archive
Photographer: Konstam, Edwin Max
Post Medieval Manor House