Delightful 1830's cloth merchant's home with fascinating Bronte connections. Charlotte Bronte visited often and featured Red House in her novel 'Shirley'. Includes period rooms, enchanting recreated gardens and exhibitions in restored outbuildings.
This delightful, red-brick house, built in 1660, was home to the Taylor family who were cloth merchants and manufacturers.
Mary Taylor, daughter of the house in the 19th Century, was a close friend of Charlotte Bronte, who visited often, featuring the house as 'Briarmains' in 'Shirley'. Her fondness for the house is evident: 'There was no splendour but there was taste everywhere.'
Red House still looks very much as it would have in Charlotte's day. Each of the rooms brings you closer to the 1830s, from the elegant parlour to the stone-flagged kitchen with its Yorkshire range, jelly moulds and colourful crockery.
The stained glass windows, described in 'Shirley' are perfectly preserved in the dining room. And the award-winning recreated 19th Century gardens, with their shaped beds, decorative ironwork and authentic varieties of plants and shrubs, help to capture the atmosphere of this fascinating bygone age.
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