Bramshill House

Bramshill House, in Bramshill, northeast Hampshire, England, is one of the largest and most important Jacobean Prodigy house mansions in England. It was built in the early 17th century by Baron Edward la Zouche of Harringworth but was partly destroyed by fire a few years later. The design shows the influence of the Italian Renaissance, which became popular in England during the late 16thcentury. The house was designated a Grade 1 listed building in 1952.

The mansion's southern facade is notable for its decorative architecture, which includes at its center a large oriel window above the principal entrance. Interior features include a great hall displaying 92 coats of arms on a Jacobean screen, an ornate drawing-room, and a 126.5 ft long gallery. Numerous columns and friezes are found throughout the mansion, while several rooms have large tapestries depicting historical figures and events on their paneled walls.

The house is set in 262 acres of grounds containing an 18-acre lake. The grounds, which received a Grade 2* listing in 1984, are part of a Registered Historic Park that includes about 25 acres of early 17th-century formal gardens near the house. The wider medieval park was landscaped from the 17th to the 20th century and contains woodland.

Bramshill House is at the approximate center of a triangle formed by Reading, Basingstoke, and Farnborough, about 47 miles by road southwest of central London. Three main lanes approach the property: Mansion Drive from the B3011 in the southwest, Reading Drive South from the B3011 to the east od Bramshill village from the north, and the shorter Pheasantry Drive which approaches it from the southeast from Chalwin's Copse, just north of the course of the River Hart.

The cricket ground at the house first played to a first-class match in 1823 when an early Hamsphire team played and England XI. Hampshire won by five wickets