Warbrook House the Street Eversley Hook Rg27 0Pl
Warbrook House looks like a Georgian mansion that got into a fight with a Jacobean manor and lost, but won style points. Built in the 1720s, it’s a red-brick beauty with a fancy triangular pediment that screams, “I’m important, but also I have a secret trapdoor somewhere.” And guess what? It actually has a priest hole—a hidden cubby where Catholics hid during the Reformation. Imagine hiding from the taxman in your own closet, but with more incense and anxiety.
The house wasn’t always a party palace. It started as a modest Georgian pile, but later owners added wings like a bird building a nest with too much ambition. One eccentric 19th-century owner, a Colonel John Biddulph, reportedly installed a submarine-style door in the basement because—why not? The guy clearly had too much sherry and too many architectural magazines.
The Secret Life of the Library (and the Ghost)
If you ever get inside—good luck, it’s mostly private—head straight for the library. It’s a two-story room with a gallery and a fireplace so huge you could roast a whole pig, or a small child if you’re feeling medieval. But here’s the kicker: the library hides a secret passage behind the bookcases. It leads to a small room where, legend has it, a ghostly nun likes to hang out. She’s been spotted reading, which is just polite, honestly. Most ghosts just moan and rattle chains; this one has book club etiquette.
And the books? They’re mostly 18th-century theology tomes, which means if you’re ever trapped in there, you’ll be bored to death before the ghost gets you.