Bradgate House

There is not much remaining of Bradgate House but it must have been magnificent in its day. Built entirely of warm, Tudor brick and set in beautiful parkland, it was designed as a home and did not have a defensive, utilitarian function. Bradgate House was still lived in 1905, but the power and influence of the Greys had long before disappeared. They represented the last flowering of the ornamental aristocracy. They turned within to follow the fox and the pheasant, as remote from the cut and thrust of their more grasping contemporaries as they were from the feuds and intrigues of their hot-blooded ancestors.