Farley Hall, Swallowfield
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Farley Hall is a large 18th-century Grade I listed country house in the English village of Farley Hill , in the civil parish of Swallowfield, Berkshire.
The Hall was built in 1720s for Charles Lannoy. [1] Plans for the landscaping were drawn up by the landscape gardener Charles Bridgeman . Formal gardens covering over 50 acres (20 hectares) have now been largely lost to agricultural and commercial development. [2]
The house stands in parkland on high ground overlooking a lake and is built in brick in two storeys to a rectangular plan. The centre and oldest part has seven bays and is connected on each side by two bay links to four bay pavilions. [3]
The 1750 acre (700 hectare) estate is bordered on three sides by tributaries of the River Thames (the Whitewater, Blackwater and Loddon). Within the grounds is a traditional working farm, a livery facility, a dairy farm, a commercial partridge, pheasant and mixed bird shoot and a range of residential and commercial properties. [4]
The livery yard opened in February 2010 and is run by Gavin Crossley, formerly of the Household Cavalry . The Farley Hall Horse Trials became a new fixture in the British Eventing calendar in 2014. [5]
The estate is currently owned by the fifth Viscount Bearsted and his family. Lady Bearsted (Dr Caroline Sacks) runs a medical practice from the Hall. [6]
References
- ↑ Ford, David Nash (2020). Mid-Berkshire Town and Village Histories . Wokingham: Nash Ford Publishing. p. 109. ISBN 9781905191024 .
- ↑ "Farley Hall, Wokingham, England - Record Id: 1301::publisher= Parks and Gardens UK" . Retrieved 20 July 2014 .
- ↑ Historic England . "Farley Hall (1118066)" . National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 9 July 2015 .
- ↑ "Farley Estate" . Farley Estate . Retrieved 20 July 2014 .
- ↑ "FARLEY HALL HT - A SNEAK PREVIEW OF THIS YEAR'S NEW FIXTURE" . Eventing Worldwide. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014 . Retrieved 20 July 2014 .
- ↑ "About FarleyMed" . Farley Estate.
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