After Bartholomew relocated to his new fashionable red brick home, Brockhampton manor became a modest farmhouse, occupied by tenants and was quietly forgotten. This benign neglect prevented damaging modernisation and by the late nineteenth century such romantic fragments of Olde England had come back into fashion. In the late 1860s John Habington-Lutley consulted the antiquarian architect J.C Buckler, who supervised the sympathetic restoration of Lower Brockhampton Manor.
The manor was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1946 with no surviving heir to the estate, Brockhampton was a rare and picturesque survival of a vanished age. When you visit Brockhampton manor you’ll see each room is set-up to reflect a time in its history so why not come and enjoy nearly six hundred years of history all under one roof?
Ross on Wye Arts Society
In 2015 the Ross on Wye Arts Society was asked by the National Trust to make an embroidered wall hanging for Bartholomew Barnaby’s room. It was to be in wool and in the style of works in 18th century and would portray Brockhampton’s ‘spirit of place’ with farming, fruit, orchards and gentry all tied within its design.
A group of five volunteers started designing and working samples. They used Crewel (2 ply) wool and the fabric is a linen twill woven by a weaver in Montrose, Scotland.