Hello everyone, Let me start off by saying that I think i have found a fairly good explore here! Urbex points coming my way! I passed this place a while back and decided to do some research. After looking on-line and spending hours on Google and Google Maps. I thought it was time to visit!
Anyway, Here we have the Manor house that is used to film Call The Midwife. The place is beautiful. Some of the building is used as a set and the rest is just derelict. The top floor is damp and mouldy while the other floors have heating and electric on. The place has been empty since the filming of season 4 ended. There are signs posted all over the place telling you this! But we still found some goodies throughout the place. Its been a while since something like this has come up. Let the tours commence!
History: Country house, currently an ,Officers' Mess. 1853 by W W Pocock, architect, for himself; much
enlarged and rebuilt c1905-12 byA E Taylor, ARIBA, TW Heath & Son, Building & Decorator and Robertsons Ltd, Buildings, for j A Mullens. 1928, drawing room remodelled and designed by Basil lonides for Sir William Berry. History: the original house was a Gothic villa, built on a 100 acre estate, and much influenced the plan of the remodelling. Sir John Mullens was a partner in the London stockbroking firm of N Marshall & Co, Lombard Street and remodelled the house as his upper middle class family home set in a country estate. c1912 he brought a team of Japanese landscape gardeners to Barrow Hills to make a then famous Japanese Garden in the grounds; part of this survives in the form of highly realistic concrete "stone" rocks on a hillside with a pumped stream, pools and waterfall over a cliff to a pond and pergola. Sir William Berry (later knighted as Lord Cambrose of Long Cross), newspaper proprietor and one time Editor in Chief of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times, bought the property in 1920. In 1937 ownership passed to the British Greyhound Association who sold it in 1950 to St George's College, Weybridge. Realising that the Ministry of Supply was acquiring much of the surround land, the college sold Barrow Hills to the Ministry in 1952; the following year it became an Officers' Mess and subsequently a Test Track was built in the grounds, destroying much of the Japanese Garden.
Publication: Country Life, 16 Feb 1929, pp235-237; Country Life, 17 Oct 1936; Barrow Hills Mess, An Outline History by Col. H W B Mackintosh, published privately 1984; The Rebuilding of Barrow Hills 1906-1912, an Open University dissertation by Lt. Col. D W Ronald, 1981.
The site is currently on hire to the BBC who are filming Call The Midwife. The place will be converted into flats in the near future as the company behind Longcross Developments want's to convert it.
Thanks For Looking!
Anyway, Here we have the Manor house that is used to film Call The Midwife. The place is beautiful. Some of the building is used as a set and the rest is just derelict. The top floor is damp and mouldy while the other floors have heating and electric on. The place has been empty since the filming of season 4 ended. There are signs posted all over the place telling you this! But we still found some goodies throughout the place. Its been a while since something like this has come up. Let the tours commence!
History: Country house, currently an ,Officers' Mess. 1853 by W W Pocock, architect, for himself; much
enlarged and rebuilt c1905-12 byA E Taylor, ARIBA, TW Heath & Son, Building & Decorator and Robertsons Ltd, Buildings, for j A Mullens. 1928, drawing room remodelled and designed by Basil lonides for Sir William Berry. History: the original house was a Gothic villa, built on a 100 acre estate, and much influenced the plan of the remodelling. Sir John Mullens was a partner in the London stockbroking firm of N Marshall & Co, Lombard Street and remodelled the house as his upper middle class family home set in a country estate. c1912 he brought a team of Japanese landscape gardeners to Barrow Hills to make a then famous Japanese Garden in the grounds; part of this survives in the form of highly realistic concrete "stone" rocks on a hillside with a pumped stream, pools and waterfall over a cliff to a pond and pergola. Sir William Berry (later knighted as Lord Cambrose of Long Cross), newspaper proprietor and one time Editor in Chief of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times, bought the property in 1920. In 1937 ownership passed to the British Greyhound Association who sold it in 1950 to St George's College, Weybridge. Realising that the Ministry of Supply was acquiring much of the surround land, the college sold Barrow Hills to the Ministry in 1952; the following year it became an Officers' Mess and subsequently a Test Track was built in the grounds, destroying much of the Japanese Garden.
Publication: Country Life, 16 Feb 1929, pp235-237; Country Life, 17 Oct 1936; Barrow Hills Mess, An Outline History by Col. H W B Mackintosh, published privately 1984; The Rebuilding of Barrow Hills 1906-1912, an Open University dissertation by Lt. Col. D W Ronald, 1981.
The site is currently on hire to the BBC who are filming Call The Midwife. The place will be converted into flats in the near future as the company behind Longcross Developments want's to convert it.
Thanks For Looking!
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