Stoke Park Pavilions

Surrounding farmland contains areas of late parliamentary enclosure, ridge and furrow earthworks and four model farms built by the 4th Duke of Grafton c. 1840.

The house is long since gone but the pavilions remain as fine examples of the Palladian style.Although formerly a single landholding, the park has now been divided between several properties, which include a large area of farmland, as well as a number of private residences accommodated within several converted farm and estate buildings as well as the remaining pavilions of the great house of Stoke Park.

Much of the character of the parkland has been lost since the Second World War, largely as a result of changing agricultural use and felling of trees.

The area of Stoke Bruene and the grounds of the park became property of the Crown when the Longueville family were forced to surrender it to Henry VIII.

The Palladian style became a standard type of country house construction in 18th century England under Lord Burlington.

[3] The surviving portions of the house built by Robert Crane in the late 1620s, consist of two pavilions and remains of a curving colonnade, form the centrepiece of the park, with an attractive terraced 17th-century garden with views across the parkland to the south.

The structures of a home farm form a group of interesting historic buildings surrounding the pavilions, but are largely screened from it by mature trees, garden hedges and the bulk of the service wing of the late 19th-century house.

[4] The gardens have a statue of Sir George Cooke of Harefield, d.1740, probably by Henry Cheere, with a pose derived from James Cragg by Guelfi at Westminster Abbey.

[4] The pavilions and park are currently private property and only occasionally accessible to the public from the narrow road between the villages of Stoke Bruerne and Shutlanger opposite the turn north to Blisworth.