'' A hall known as Henbury Hall existed in the area in the 17th century. A
Neoclassical style hall was built on the present site in 1742. It was sold by
Sir William Meredith to John Bower Jodrell in 1779 for £24,000 and passed on to his son Francis Bower Jodrell in 1796. John Charles Ryle, the banker and MP for Macclesfield, bought it in 1835 for £54,000 and sold it following his bankruptcy to Thomas Marsland, first MP for Stockport (1776–1854) in 1842. The hall was remodelled in a more severe Neoclassical style in the early part of the 19th century, and then
stuccoed and drastically reduced in size in the 1850s. The estate passed to his grandson Edward Marsland (died 1857) whose widow Jane Marsland was forced to sell after a disastrous flood in 1872. It was bought for £9000 and extensively remodelled by local silk manufacturer Thomas Unett Brocklehurst. In 1876 Brocklehurst reputedly imported a pair of
grey squirrels from America and released them into the estate with ultimately disastrous results for the native
red squirrel. The Brocklehurst family remained in residence at Henbury for several generations. In 1957 the estate was bought by
Sir Vincent de Ferranti. He demolished the existing house and commissioned the architect Harry Fairhurst to convert the stable block for his own residential use. After the death of Sir Vincent in 1980, his son Sebastian and the designer
Felix Kelly, who had already been involved with some work on the Henbury estate, came up with the idea of creating a house in the style of a
Palladian temple. Kelly executed an oil painting based on Villa Rotonda, a house near
Vicenza built in 1552 and designed by
Andrea Palladio. Sebastian then commissioned the architect
Julian Bicknell to create a design similar to Kelly's painting. The new building was completed in 1986. Sebastian lived there with his wife Naomi, until her death in 2003. Together, they designed the interior with the help of David Milnaric. They also worked together on the gardens. He was married again briefly before his death on 15 October 2015. In 2018 the house and estate was put on the market for an undisclosed sum. ==Architecture==