The History of Brympton House
Brympton House is set within 33 glorious parkland and lakes and has a history that can be traced back to the Doomsday Book
The House was once at the centre of the medieval village of Brympton D`Evercy, but today no traces of this remain
The main house was built between 1460 and 1680 and is approached by a long private drive
Nestling close to the main buildings is the 1350 Dower House ,Bell Tower,Orangery & St Andrews Church;a grouping that led Christopher Hussey -the architecural writer for Country Life to describe Brympton as the `most beautiful house in england`.
Since the land was aquiredby the D`Evercy family soon after the Norman Conquest Brympton has been lived in by three familys the D`Evercy`s,the Sydenham`s and the Fanes.
The Clive-Ponsonby-Fane family still live on the estate in a house known as little Brympton.
The oldest building on the site is the Dower House which was built in 1350 (some half a century before St Andrews Church) and was the original medieval manor of Brympton.
The Star camber also dates from this time and would have housed the medieval kitchens.
in 1420 the Elizabethan West Front of Brympton was built by John Sydenham and the Dower House was abandoned. The next major building phase occured in 1680 when the back of the Elizabethan hall was demolished and replaced with the restoration South Front.
When the Earl of West Morland`s daughter Lady Georgina Fane inherited Brympton in 1826 the Victorian Lodge was built.
In 2008 the house was taken over by the Brympton House Trust.
