Monthly Archives: February 2011

The future of the country house? Alderbrook Park, Surrey

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat

Within any established pattern there is always the shock of the new. Most people when asked to imagine an English country house will usually think of red-brick Jacobean or light-stone Georgian but the design of new country houses is always … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged alderbrook park, alfred waterhouse, architecture, cheshire, corbusier, country house, crewe hall, demolition, derbyshire, development, duke of bedford, duke of westminster, eaton hall, english, english heritage, estate, georgian, grafton new hall, greenwich, hardwick hall, houses, inigo jones, john dennys, john martin robinson, john ruskin, lakshmi mittal, palladian, palladianism, palladio, pevsner, queens house, ralli family, riba, robert adam, robert smythson, sir edwin lutyens, sir henry wotton, sir john summerson, sir randolph crew, surrey, sussex, ushida findlay, wadhurst park, william morris, william webb | 14 Comments

Make a date: the strange world of the calendar house

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat

One of the main satisfactions of having a house built is that, as it’s your money, you get to decide the style, design, scale and detail according to your whims. With many of the stranger flights of fancy now curtailed … Continue reading →

Posted in At Risk, News | Tagged aberdeenshire, avon tyrrell, balfour castle, bedstone court, bradgate house, buildings at risk, cairness house, calendar house, Cumbria, david bryce, earl of stamford, elizabeth I, elizabethan, grade-ii-star, hampshire, holme eden hall, james playfair, john dobson, kent, knole, lancashire, leicestershire, mark girouard, neo-classical, pevsner, sackville, scotland, scout hall, shropshire, society for the protection of ancient buildings, SPAB, the towers, thomas harris, thomas worthington, w.r. lethaby, yorkshire | 8 Comments

Back from the brink: country houses rescued from dereliction

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat

One often forgotten aspect of local newspapers is their ability to draw on their archives and provide reminders of local history. The local paper frequently played an important part in publicising the goings on at the ‘big house’, reporting the … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged architecture, At Risk, bank hall, barlaston hall, buildings at risk, chippendale, conservation, country house, country life magazine, demolished, e.f. law, ecton hall, essex, estate, finedon hall, fire, for sale, gothic-revival, gunton park, heritage, holkham hall, horace walpole, houses, ingatestone hall, isted, james paine, James Wyatt, kit martin, lancashire, listed, lord burlington, lord petre, mackworth-dolben, marcus binney, mark girouard, matthew brettingham, monmouthshire, norfolk, northamptonshire, palladian, parkland, pell well hall, piercefield house, restoration, rococo, SAVE Britain's Heritage, shropshire, sir john soane, sir robert taylor, staffordshire, strawberry hill, thorndon hall, tudor-gothic, volta tower, wedgewood, william kent | 9 Comments

Monthly Archives: February 2011

The future of the country house? Alderbrook Park, Surrey

Make a date: the strange world of the calendar house

Back from the brink: country houses rescued from dereliction

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