Bradley House, Wiltshire

John petitioned parliament for the restoration of his maternal inheritance, but as the lands had been sold, he was awarded compensation in the form of the estate of Maiden Bradley.

He did not live to enjoy the grant and died in the Tower of London, having bequeathed the estate with all his other lands and goods to his younger brother Lord Edward Seymour,[3] ancestor of the present Duke of Somerset, whose seat it remains today.

It was a large building: a plate in Vitruvius Britannicus (1717) shows the seven-bay front elevation with its Baroque doorcase, together with plans of the first and second floors.

Built in rendered limestone, the 18th-century part (originally just one room deep) has two floors and an attic; it was lengthened from five bays to eight sometime after 1822, and in the same century a rear range and service wing were added.

[1] Tours are available by prior appointment, and the ground floor and Coach House are marketed as a venue for weddings and other functions.

Their graves are in a little wood on a hilltop surrounded by agricultural land, with a metal fence around them, and marked by standing rough stones with small text plaques.