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 timber-framed building with attic rooms on the right, and a two-storey brick building with attic rooms on the left, linked by a wooden gate. The house in the background is linked to the brick building in the foreground by a small single-storey section, possibly a service entrance or kitchen area.
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