Brocket Hall

Coordinates: 51°48′04″N 0°14′46″W / 51.801°N 0.246°W / 51.801; -0.246

Brocket Hall is an architecturally Grade I-listed classical four-to-five storey country house set in Brocket Hall Park and Garden at the northern end of the urban area of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, 22 miles (35 km) from London by road. In its grounds are two golf courses and seven smaller listed buildings, such as the early 17th-century house, which now incorporates a fine-dining restaurant called "Auberge du Lac", Brocket Lea and The Temple built by Paine later that century.

It is owned on a long leasehold by Club Corporation of Asia (CCA), with the future reversionary interest set to arise in the middle of the 21st century owned by a trust of the line of peers who took their name from it in 1933.

Development

Sir Matthew Lamb, 1st Baronet, purchased the estate in 1746, complete with Brocket Lea, the older house on the south side of the upper course of the river visible from almost all of the estate. He built the hall as it is seen today around 1760 to the designs of the architect Sir James Paine.