Tag Archives: worcestershire

A Sleeping Beauty: Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat

The temptation when Country Life magazine arrives each week is to flick through the properties and make tabloid-esque comparisons about how a detached Regency villa in Dorset with space for a family, chickens, and an excitable spaniel, could be had for the … Continue reading →

Posted in for sale, News | Tagged architecture, country house, country life magazine, for sale, francis smith of warwick, georgian, james gibbs, john nash, lord sandys, ombersley court, savills, sutton scarsdale, worcestershire | 6 Comments

Finest prospects: the artist and the country house (and a challenge)

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat

The country house has always been a trophy to be admired and enjoyed. Yet, in the age before mass media and transportation made it easier to see these fine houses, often the only way to remind yourself and, more importantly, … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged albury house, architecture, art, bedford lemere, claude lorrain, country house, country life magazine, english, estate, felix kelly, heritage, houses, humphry repton, j.m.w. turner, john harris, julian bicknell, kentchurch court, lancelot capability brown, parkland, surrey, tottenham park, westwood, william ranken, worcestershire | 16 Comments

If a moat floats your boat: for sale; Playford Hall and Giffords Hall, Suffolk

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat

Moated houses are an architectural short cut to a more functional time when where a family lived had to be defensible and not simply a place of relaxation. Today, of course, we admire them for their ancient charm, the weathered … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged a.w.n. pugin, anglo-catholic, architecture, arts & crafts, c.r. ashbee, castle, conservation, country house, country life magazine, earls beauchamp, earls of bristol, edward hudson, elizabethan, english, estate, for sale, giffords hall, grade-ii-star, groombridge place, h. avray tipping, heritage, houses, ightham mote, jacobean, jeremy musson, john evelyn, john leyland, john ruskin, kent, listed, lygon family, madresfield court, manor house, moat, philip hardwick, picturesque, playford hall, plumpton place, restoration, savills, sir edwin lutyens, sussex, swinford old manor, victorian, worcestershire | 5 Comments

The rise and fall of French taste on UK country houses

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat

For all the traditional antipathy towards the French, the influence of their architecture has been felt throughout Britain’s country houses. Although initially the use of the French architectural vocabulary was a sign of wealth and education only available to the … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged alfred waterhouse, anthony salvin, architecture, ashburnham place, auguste tonquois, bedfordshire, belvoir castle, berkshire, bowes museum, buckinghamshire, burghley house, chateau impney, cheshire, country house, county durham, denbighshire, dukes of sutherland, dunrobin castle, earl de grey, earl of denbigh, eaton hall, english, french, georgian, halton house, hedsor house, heritage, houses, john corbett, jules pellechet, kent, lady ashburnham, listed, lord boston, lord burghley, louis xv, marbury hall, normanhurst, northamptonshire, nuneham paddox, oxonhoath, plas rhianfa, rothschild, scotland, sir charles barry, st leonard's hill, sussex, thomas brassey, victorian, waddesdon manor, wales, warter priory, warwickshire, windsor castle, worcestershire, wrest park, wynnstay, yorkshire | 8 Comments

Shock: English Heritage still hand out grants! Hagley Hall benefits

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat

When the listed building restrictions were originally introduced the compensation for not being to do exactly as you wished with your house was that the government would provide grants towards maintainence. Obviously successive governments have seen these funds as an … Continue reading →

Posted in Comment, News | Tagged conservation, country house, english heritage, grade-i, grants, hagley hall, listed building, restoration, worcestershire | Leave a comment

Burglars in £200,000 raid on Upton-upon-Severn stately home

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat

The former seat of the Earls of Coventry, the 16th century Earls Croome Court, near Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire, which was sold by the family following the death of the 11th Earl in 1992, was recently for sale. However, as a … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged 16th century, country house, earls croome court, earls of coventry, theft, worcestershire | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: worcestershire

A Sleeping Beauty: Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

Finest prospects: the artist and the country house (and a challenge)

If a moat floats your boat: for sale; Playford Hall and Giffords Hall, Suffolk

The rise and fall of French taste on UK country houses

Shock: English Heritage still hand out grants! Hagley Hall benefits

Burglars in £200,000 raid on Upton-upon-Severn stately home

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