Breamore House is an

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noted for its fine collection of paintings and furniture and situated NW of

Breamore Breamore ( ) is a village and civil parish near Fordingbridge in Hampshire, England. The parish includes a notable Elizabethan country house, Breamore House, built with an E-shaped ground plan. The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary h ...

village, north of

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. Though it remains in private hands, it is open to visitors from April to October. Breamore house stables and tower

Breamore House was completed in 1583 by the Dodington family, and was built on the site of Breamore Priory. The building underwent minor changes in the 18th century and underwent considerable

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after a major fire in 1856. Purchased in the 18th century by Sir Edward Hulse, M.D., Baronet, and physician to Queen Anne and Kings

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and

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, the home is still inhabited by the Hulse family (see Hulse baronets). After marriage with Dame Elizabeth, daughter of Sir

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and owner of

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, the Hulse family acquired many heirlooms of the Sussex

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family, which are on display in the house. Levett's other daughter, Frances, married Thomas Lewis Esq. of St. Pierre, Monmouthshire, Wales; his daughter Mary married Abraham Blackborne, a London merchant who lived at Clapham, whose son, also named Abraham, vicar of

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, married Frances Fanshawe, daughter of Thomas Fanshawe of Parsloes Manor. Sir Edward Hulse's only daughter, Elizabeth, married John Calvert of Albury Hall,

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in 1757. John Calvert was

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for Wendover in 1754 and later for Hertford. The wedding was performed by Abraham Blackborne, vicar of Dagenham, Essex. The brothers Thomas, Edward and Richard, sons of Sir Edward Hulse and his wife Elizabeth, all attended the

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. A fourth son, Levett, died as an infant.

Film Locations

Breamore House was used as one of the locations for the 2005 film ''

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''. Breamore was also a filming location for

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's 2009 special on

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entitled '' Into the Storm'', where the house stood in for

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, the home of the

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.The South-Central Region on Screen
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References

External links

Breamore HouseAn alternative site created by the ButlerHulse of Hampshire, John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire
{{Authority control Country houses in Hampshire Grade II* listed buildings in Hampshire Grade II* listed houses Open-air museums in England Historic house museums in Hampshire New Forest District New Forest folklore 1583 establishments in England