BRAMBLETYE

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
Private Property

Kimble County, Texas Hill Country

FM 2291 About 3 miles North of I-10
About 3 Miles S of Cleo
About 1 Mile S of Bear Creek Settlement
NW of Junction

Brambletye
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, May 2011

Historical Marker:

Brambletye

Brambletye was built between 1895 and 1900 by English immigrant William Hall (b. 1833), who came to Texas in 1888. After Hall's death in 1900, the stone house and surrounding ranchland were owned by several early ranch families. Prominently sited on a hill overlooking Bear Creek, known earlier as Viejo Creek, Brambletye is a rare example of late 19th-century English vernacular architecture in the Texas Hill Country. It features hand cut stone walls two feet thick and ceiling beams of hand-hewn walnut and other hardwoods.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1983

Brambletye Historical Marker
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, May 2011

The stone house
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, May 2011

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