The site was purchased by Sir Richard Broke, who built a manor house there, during the reign of Henry VIII.[4][5] The present house was built by James Wyatt for Philip Bowes Broke in 1792, but is probably a remodelling of an earlier house built in 1775 by Richard Norris.[3]
^ abBroke Hall, Heritage Gateway, retrieved 27 December 2011
^Neale, John Preston; Moule, Thomas (1822), Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, vol. 5, Sherwood, Jones and Co.
^Walford Dakin Selby, ed., The Genealogist, vol. 23 (1907), p. 143: "He on his uncle's decease in 1860, assumed the additional name of Middleton, and dying s.p. on 19th January 1887, the property devolved upon his niece, Jane Anne Broke, the daughter of his deceased brother, Captain Charles Acton Broke, 11. E. (ob. 1855). She, on 10th October 1882, became the wife of Sir James St Vincent, fourth Baron de Saumarez."