Building record 15915/1 - Radbroke Hall

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

House now offices 1907-19. By Sir Percy Worthington for Charles Harding. Ashlar with plain tile hipped roofs. 3-sided courtyard plan consisting of central block of two storeys with attic and single storey pavilions connected by single storey quadrant wings. Two storeys with attic.

(see list entry for full description)

<2> de Figueiredo P & Treuherz J, 1988, Cheshire Country Houses, p.150-153 (Book). SCH785.

Constructed during the last phase of country house building in Cheshire. Worthington chose a type of restoration house with a large two storey central block and lower projecting wings flanking a forecourt. In the tall hipped roof of Cotswold stone are small-paned dormer windows and at the centre is a giant portico. Plans for the house were exhibited by Worthington at the Royal Acadamy in 1914. Work began in 1915 and the house was completed in 1917. There is nothing modest about the design of Radbroke, the layout is bold and formal but , as with Lutyens' houses, it contains spatial drama and surprise.

Sold for offices in 1955

<3> Cheshire Gardens Trust, 2011 onwards, Research and Recording Report, Radbroke Hall (Report). SCH6655.

Radbroke Hall was designed by Percy Scott Worthington for Claude and Olga Hardy and built 1912 – 1917 on land acquired from Lord Egerton of Tatton. In 1956 the property was sold to the Nuclear Power Group who built offices and a testing tower in the grounds.