Category: EH & NT
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Posted: 19-Aug-2021 | Category: EH & NT
Basildon Park
This beautiful house was saved from destruction by Lord & Lady Iliffe in the 1950's.
Posted: 18-Aug-2021 | Category: EH & NT
Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey)
Highclere is beautiful & iconic due to the popular television series Downton Abbey.
Posted: 17-Aug-2021 | Category: EH & NT
Mottisfont
Mottisfont used to be a Priory church. It is a building that has been transformed by Maud & Gilbert Russell rather than destroyed.
Posted: 12-Aug-2021 | Category: EH & NT
Melford Hall
Melford Hall is best known for the visits of Beatrice Potter who did some of her writing here.
Posted: 11-Aug-2021 | Category: EH & NT
Ickworth
The builders have finished the new roof & as always Ickworth is a beautiful place to visit.
Posted: 05-Aug-2021 | Category: EH & NT
Kedleston Hall-NT
Kedleston Hall was built by architect Robert Adam & the Curzon family have lived here over the centuries.
Posted: 04-Aug-2021 | Category: EH & NT
Hardwick-NT
This beautiful Elizabethan house was built by Elizabeth of Shrewsbury, also known as Tess of Hardwick. She married four times, all wealthy men & so she was able to collect the finest tapestries to decorate the walls. The building & some things in the house bear her initials E S flaunting her vast wealth.
Posted: 04-Aug-2021 | Category: EH & NT
Hardwick Old Hall-EH
This Elizabethan mansion was built by Elizabeth of Shrewsbury, otherwise known as Tess of Hardwick. She built the mansion on the site where she was born in relative poverty in 1527.The entertaining rooms were lavish & on the upper floors of the mansion. Tess started building Hardwick (next door) before the Old Hall was completed. English Heritage own this building & has currently closed it to visitors which was annoying!
Posted: 04-Aug-2021 | Category: EH & NT
Bolsover Castle-EH
Bolsover Castle was neither a fortress or a country house.It was designed to impress & entertain King Charles 1 & his court.
Posted: 03-Aug-2021 | Category: EH & NT
Calke Abbey-NT
This fascinating place is billed as an unstately home. The National Trust took it over in 1985 & decided to leave the "gentle neglect" as it is rather than restore. It is easy to understand how many estates like Calke Abbey have fallen into decline in recent years through lack of funds.
