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Upon entering Brodsworth Hall, it is soon apparent that this isn’t your average Victorian country house. The wallpaper is showing its age; there are water marks on some of the books, seemingly from an ill-placed kettle; and the servants’ rooms have long been used for storage.

What is particularly remarkable about this Yorkshire gem, however, is that it survives as an ensemble, complete with contents and gardens. Built between 1861 and 1863 by Charles Sabine Thellusson, a captain in the 12th Royal Lancers, Brodsworth Hall was continuously occupied by three generations of his family, before passing into English Heritage’s hands in 1990. The result is a unique collection of objects telling the family’s history.

There has been a substantial landholding at the site near Doncaster ever since the Norman Conquest of England in the 11th century. Brodsworth became a seat of the 8th Earl of Kinnoull in the early 18th