Bramshill house is a Jacobean mansion, and reference to Bramshill (Bromeselle) dates back to the Saxon times. In the 14th century Thomas Foxley lived there, he was the person that built Windsor Castle for the crown. It appears that he used masons from Windsor to build a small castle; some evidence of this can still be seen in the cellar. In 1605 11th Baron Zouche of Harrington, Edward Zouche brought the property and demolished a large part of it and built the house we see today. He completed the work in 1612. Sir John Cope brought the house in 1699, and his family continued to live there for many years. Since 1960 it as been used as The Police Staff College.

This is believed to be a very haunted house, one of the most well known is the Mistletoe Bough ghost it is of a young women, thought to be Anne, Sir Johns eldest daughter, on her wedding day she wanted to play a game of hide and seek, her family and guests never found her, years later her body was found inside an old trunk that could only be unlocked from the outside, by a servant in a unused part of the house.