Berrington Hall, Leominster, Herefordshire, England

The house is approached from the A49 via Holland's triumphal-arch lodge. The house faces south-west, looking out over a ha-ha towards the park, which is scattered with trees and extends southwards towards the artificial lake known as Berrington Pool. The view from the house extends to the silhouette of the Black Mountains to the west. There is a brick-walled kitchen garden and a tiled dairy. There is a flower garden between the lodge and the house.

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

A park laid out by Lancelot Brown in the late 18th century associated with a country house built at the same time.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Berrington lies 10 kilometres south of Ludlow on the main A49 Shrewsbury to Hereford road which passes through the eastern part of the park. The Hall stands on a knoll, with the main views being to the south, across the greater part of the park and the lake to the Black Mountains, and to the west, to the countryside around Luston 3 kilometres away and to Radnor Forest beyond. North of the Hall the ground rises again, although the hamlet of Moreton, at the north-west corner of the park, is hidden by the westward fall in the ground. Down the eastern side of the park, traversed by the A49, the ground rises up to a ridge (135 metres) covered with Long Wood. The registered area is roughly 186 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Country Life, 116 (2 December 1954), pp 1952-6; (9 December 1954), pp 2102-5; (16 December 1954), pp 2182-5

Berrington Hall, guidebook, (National Trust 1980)

R Sidwell, West Midland Gardens (1981), pp 28-9

Berrington Hall Park and Garden Survey 1985-6, (unpublished report for the National Trust 1986)

Berrington Hall: Draft Report on the Historic Landscape, (Land Use Consultants 1994)

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: Herefordshire sheet 12 NE, 1st edition published 1886

OS 25" to 1 mile: Herefordshire sheet 12.4, 2nd edition published 1903

Archival items

Deposit AE 42, including survey and valuation 1870, particulars 1898, miscellaneous deeds. (Herefordshire Record Office) 

Description written: 1998

Edited: August 1999