Audley End — A Victorian Christmas To Remember - Beyond Downton Abbey: A Guide to 25 Great Houses - page 111

In the late 1700s, owner Sir John Griffin (later 1 st Baron Braybrooke) made significant
changes to Audley End. He hired landscape master Capability Brown to transform the
parkland, and architect Robert Adam to upgrade the mansion's main level. Richard
Grifffin-Neville, 3 rd Baron Braybrooke used some of his fortune to add fine art and fur-
nishings in the early 1800s.
Audley End was used by British and Polish special forces during World War II. After the
war, the 9 th Lord Braybrooke sold the house to the British government in 1948, and it was
turned over to English Heritage.
Style notes
Jacobean house with 18 th century additions and alterations. Main structure unaltered since
1753.
photo by Stephen the Photofan (Creative Commons license)