A Superior Friday 2017 stop by to Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire.
A look all over the castle developing.
The numerous views of the castle as witnessed from Eastnor Lake.
If you want to, you can share your castle pics to www.facebook.com/EastnorCastle (or share it to the castle with their Twitter or Instagram accounts or use the #EastnorCastle hashtag).
Quality I outlined developing
Listing Text
SO 73 NW
4/31
EASTNOR CP,
EASTNOR,
Eastnor Castle
18.11.52
GV
I
Nation dwelling. 1811-1820 by Robert Smirke for 2nd Baron Somers inner alterations, mostly attractive by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1849/50 and G. E. Fox 1860s Sir G. G. Scott also proposed alterations but these were not absolutely carried out. Ashlar direct and slate roof concealed powering embattled parapet the roof trusses and floor beams are solid iron, an early instance of the use of iron in domestic buildings octagonal ashlar stacks disguised as turrets. A Picturesque, nevertheless even now symmetrical castle in a critical neo-Norman and early English type: rectangular with E-prepare entrance front and flanking towers joined by shorter diagonal backlinks. 2 storeys and cellars in a battered plinth to the north- and south-east the castle is elevated on a mound and has tall retaining partitions. Entrance front is dominated by a boldly massed centre which raises by means of 3 levels and is stepped up to the middle of the constructing spherical corner turrets and arched parapets to the outdoors projecting porte-cochere beneath an embattled parapet and with 3 tall round archways of 3 orders of columns which have cushion capitals. To hither aspect of the centre are 3:1 bays, the outer ones remaining innovative and terminated by tall, 3 stage corner towers which are clover leaf on strategy and have corbelled parapets and single-light-weight, round-headed, windows established in deep embrasures. The central 3 bay sections have 3-gentle Early English type home windows on the floor floor established again in recesses and divided by flat buttresses, roll-moulded cill band under and corbelled blocking class higher than, guiding which the upper flooring is recessed with large pane sash windows in neo-Norman type surrounds which have columns and cushion capitals. The outer single bays have 3-mild Gothic type windows but established in neo-Norman surrounds plain tripartite home windows on to start with flooring. Large central double doorways and basic spherical-headed doors at foundation of outer towers, that to the left prospects to an outer parapet walkway at the foot of the side elevation. The north-east (facet) elevation rests on a tall, battered retaining wall, and is of 3 bays, the centre currently being a total top canted bay of 3 windows the fenestration is a variation of the Entrance Entrance. Backyard garden elevation of 4:3:4 home windows and tall corner towers as Entrance elevation. The central 3 windows are set in a 3 phase tower which is canted to the out- side. 2-mild Geometric type windows on floor floor neo-Norman model surrounds and columns to the centre 3-gentle plain, spherical-headed windows on the first ground, but Geometric style outer windows. To the south-west of the Castle is the hooked up kitchen wing of 2 storeys forming a T-system with a courtroom on the south aspect 4 2-light casement windows underneath hood-moulds tall, 2-phase sq. towers terminate the 2 arms of the wing.
Inside: little of the original Smirke interiors survive. Front Staircase
Hall, redecorated by G E Fox 1860s. Entrance Corridor: Smirke, in all probability re-
modelled by Scott, and redecorated by G E Fox in the 1860s the carving
is by William and James Forsythe of Worcester the proportions are 60 toes
long by 55 feet higher Romanesque type “triforium” gallery and 2-mild
“clerestorey” home windows with Venetian model tracery panelled ceiling and
braced trusses panelled doorways in neo-Norman design and style surrounds attractive
stencilling in canvas by Fox. Octagon space has a coffered ceiling. Gothic
Drawing Home: the plasterwork is by F Bernasconi and Son but the painted
decoration was made by Pugin and executed by the Crace company in 1849-50
lover vaulted ceiling: big, wrought, 2 tier chandelier by Pugin, 1850
but made by Hardman of Birmingham really elaborate fire with ogee
head and loved ones heraldry, a painted family tree is higher than linenfold
panelling, chairs, desk and sideboard all by Pugin. Library: by G E Fox
late 1860s, in an Italian Renaissance design and style discover inlaid woodwork, Istrian
stone chimneypiece apparently with a representation of Garibaldi coffered
ceiling with paintings of the Virtues and the Vices. Minor Library: also
by Fox, incorporating woodwork from the Accademia degli Intronati at Siena,
1646) Malvern Hills granite fireplace and Gibbons carving from Reigate Priory
flanking the overmantel mirror. Dining Space: by Smirke but altered, painted
and panelled ceiling panelled dado and crafted-in Gothic design and style sideboards
home furniture also by Smirke. Staircase Hall: plain staircase by Smirke, arcaded
balustrade of forged iron and wooden. Point out Bed room: some of the earliest get the job done
of the Royal School of Needlework, early C20 for Lady Henry Somerset. Several
drawings and get the job done publications endure in the muniment area of the household. The
accounts for the 1811-12 interval volume to £85,923 13s 11½d.
(N Pevsner, The Properties of England: Herefordshire, 1963. State Existence, 7.3.68
14.3.68 and 21.3.68).
Listing NGR: SO7350036876
This text is from the primary listing, and might not always reflect the recent environment of the making.
Posted in the Birmingham Mail on Tuesday 18th July 2017.
Posted by ell brown on 2017-04-15 16:50:01
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