Description:This postcard view shows the smoking ruins of Aqualate Hall after the devastating fire of late November 1910.
The original Aqualate Hall was built for Edwin Skrymsher in the early seventeenth century. Sir John Boughey bought the house in the late eighteenth century and commissioned John Nash to rebuild it in the Gothic style.
The Hall was destroyed by the fire and a new house was built between 1927 and 1930 by W.D. Caroe. An original range of gables by Nash survived the fire and joins the new house to an eighteenth century stable block.
In the grounds there are two Gothic lodge-houses, and a red brick house with an attached castellated tower.
Photographer: Harry Osbourne of Woodseaves.