Bradwell Grove

Bradwell Grove is a country house built between 1804 and 1810 by the architect William Atkinson for William Hervey, with Richard Pace of Lechlade as the builder. It is now used as offices and staff flats for a wildlife park. The north service wing incorporates part of an 18th-century wing from the former Jacobean house that previously stood on the site. The building has undergone alterations and extensions in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

The house is constructed of coursed rubble limestone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. It features square and octagonal ashlar chimney shafts with moulded caps. The design follows a Tudor Gothick style on a U-plan, with two storeys, embattled parapets with moulded copings, and slender set-back buttresses. The fenestration is Gothick in character, with 4-centre arched lights and wooden tracery; most windows retain wooden glazing bars.

The east front comprises a tall 3-bay corner tower to the left, five lower bays to the centre, a projecting bay (possibly of slightly later date) to the right, and a late 19th-century extension further to the right. The tower has corner finials with crockets and blind tracery. The first floor features 2-light casements with Tudor hoodmoulds, while the ground floor has 2-light windows with Y-tracery, transoms, 4-centred heads and hoodmoulds. The lower centre bays have 2-light windows with only horizontal glazing bars and no hoodmoulds. To the left of these bays is a projecting single-storey porch with battlements, buttresses, and a double-chamfered 4-centred arch with hoodmould. Adjacent is a canted stair turret, part ashlar and part rendered, with battlements and arched slit windows. The projecting bay to the right of the range is slightly taller than the centre and has traceried windows with 4-centred heads: the lower windows have three lights and the upper windows have two lights. The late 19th-century bay at the far right lacks battlements.

The south front features a return of the tower to the right, a 3-bay centre, and a slightly projecting bay to the left with a coped gable and crocketed finials. The ground floor fenestration was altered in the late 19th century to tall windows with hollow-chamfered stone mullions and transoms; the centre windows have two lights with Tudor hoodmoulds, while the outer windows sit within rectangular bays with battlements. These bay windows were further altered in the 20th century to incorporate pairs of glazed metal doors. The upper storey of the left bay was also altered in the late 19th century, with a 3-light stone mullion and transom window replacing a former traceried window. The centre bays retain early 19th-century 2-light casements with Tudor hoodmoulds at first floor level, and the tower has matching blind and painted windows.

To the left of the main range is an early 19th-century orangery, now part of a cafeteria, built in matching style with a coped parapet and five bays of 4-centre arched windows. The windows contain 3-light Gothick sashes with ornamental leaded glazing to their upper frames. A half-glazed door to the right features a tall arched fanlight in similar style, with a stone shield above. The service wing to the north has ordinary 2-light casements in plain stone architraves with beaded inner edges. A large 20th-century cafeteria extension along the west side of the house is not of special architectural interest.

The interior displays simple early 19th-century Gothick detailing, with panelled doors and battened ceilings. The south wing has a rib-vaulted lobby on the ground floor. The stair features stone treads, a wrought iron balustrade with Gothick arching, a moulded wooden handrail, and Gothick panelled wooden newel posts. Ground floor rooms in the south wing have late 19th-century panelling and fireplaces. A billiard room extension to the rear of the orangery also dates from the late 19th century.