Gadebridge House was a country house at Gadebridge in Hertfordshire.
Gadebridge House was a country house at Gadebridge in Hertfordshire.
The house was built for Sir Astley Paston Cooper, a surgeon, who moved there in 1811. [1] In around 1840 Cooper commissioned an iron bridge as part of the approach to the site. [2] The house was inherited by Lionel Hervey-Bathurst in 1905, following the death of the 3rd Baronet. [3] The house passed down the Paston-Cooper family until it became Gadebridge Park School in 1914. [1] Although the site accommodated a temporary army camp during World War I, the house remained a school until 1963 when the school was forced out of its premises by the Commission for New Towns as part of its development of the new town. [4] The house was demolished and Kodak built a Marketing Education Centre on the site: the centre was itself demolished in 1995 and the site is now used for housing. [1]
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