Hopefield Manor is a fine classically designed Barbadian house built in 1831 and filled with artwork and well preserved antiques. It is now the home to Sir David Seale and Lady Anne Seale who, not only are well known for their business' they also own the nearby Foursquare Rum Distillery and Heritage Park.
Hopefield is much more than its plantation house. Its hundred acres of rolling countryside encompass a working plantation, a rum blending and bottling plant and a renowned racing stud farm.
Any one who has visited Barbados would of tasted Foursquare rum at some point, I'm sure.
The gardens are expansive and beautiful, and the stables are more than a little impressive, with colts and yearlings running around paddocks. There is even a pool for the horses to exercise and a mini race-track. The Hopefield horses have won at least 5 Cockspur Golf Cups!! Sir David is also President of the Barbados Turf Club.
The structureof the house is classically Barbadian, with its two storeys, its enclosed verandas, its pedimented east porch and the grand portico on the north side with its Doric columns.
It would be great to visit the beautiful Barbados and get to stay at Colony Club Hotel.
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