Gadebridge House

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.