Wool House

In 1840, the plain classical Wool House had an L-plan, but by the time it was put up for sale in 1869 there was not only a northern extension, but a range of outbuildings, running north to south, appears to have been incorporated into the premises and perhaps partially rebuilt. By 1886, this ancillary range extended behind what is now Old Wool House Cottage, which in 1869 and possibly before changes of name The Wool House was not so called until 1967. It was known genteelly as The Beeches in 1861, and there are still several magnificent copper beech trees growing in the grounds, possibly those planted in the mid-19th century. In 1929 Colonel Sneyd, who had bought both Woolstore and Wool House in 1926, renamed the house Bradwell Grange, after his much grander family home in Staffordshire, and later deeds refer to names conjuring up its river valley associations – Flying Goose Furlong (1950), Gray’s Mead(1963, 1964) and Flying Goose Farm.