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Monthly Archives: February 2011
The future of the country house? Alderbrook Park, Surrey
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
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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
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Make a date: the strange world of the calendar house
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
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