Tag Archives: mark girouard

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 →

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A restoration or a recreation: Knightshayes Court, Devon

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat

For all the wonderful work the National Trust has done over the last hundred years saving numerous country houses from demolition, one criticism that has been levelled at it is the almost artificial atmosphere it has created inside. A recent … Continue reading →

Posted in Comment, News | Tagged architecture, buckinghamshire, cardiff castle, castell coch, conservation, country house, derbyshire, devon, english, gayhurst, gothic, gothic-revival, heathcoat amory, heritage, houses, john diblee crace, kedleston hall, knightshayes court, listed, lord carrington, lord scarsdale, luddites, mark girouard, marquess of bute, national trust, restoration, robert adam, society for the protection of ancient buildings, SPAB, tiverton, victorian, william burges | 2 Comments

If you thought ‘The Restoration Man’ projects a bit small-fry; try Overstone House

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat

Although hated by Samuel Loyd who commissioned it, Overstone House is fondly remembered by the generations of girls who were taught there after it became a school. A vast, rambling property, it was sold to an obscure evangelical religious group … Continue reading →

Posted in At Risk, for sale, News | Tagged architecture, At Risk, bidwells, buildings at risk, conservation, country house, development, english heritage, for sale, heritage, houses, listed, lockinge, mark girouard, northamptonshire, overstone hall, pevsner, restoration, samuel loyd, victorian, william milford teulon | 5 Comments

Tag Archives: mark girouard

Make a date: the strange world of the calendar house

Back from the brink: country houses rescued from dereliction

A restoration or a recreation: Knightshayes Court, Devon

If you thought ‘The Restoration Man’ projects a bit small-fry; try Overstone House

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