Description
Wrest Park is a country estate located near Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. It comprises Wrest Park, a Grade I listed country house, and Wrest Park Gardens, also Grade I listed, formal gardens amounting to 150 acres, surrounding the mansion designed by Capability Brown. The house was built between 1834-39 to designs by its owner the Thomas de Grey an amateur architect, and the first president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), who was inspired by buildings he had seen on trips to Paris..