A Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall
Pictured is one of the bedrooms from a group of rooms located above the Long Gallery known as “The Nurseries”. As with many rooms at Beaudesert the walls were hung with Chinese wallpaper and here it ...
A Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall
There were many bedrooms at Beaudesert. This panelled room with a stone fireplace is thought to be one of the bedrooms from a group of rooms located above the Long Gallery known as “The Nurseries”.
Beaudesert ...
A Bedroom at Wootton Lodge
Pictured is one of the bedrooms at Wootton Lodge. Photographed by Country Life and featured in their magazine in March 1959. The panelling dates from around 1700.
Wootton Lodge was built as a hunting ...
A Bedroom at Wootton Lodge
Pictured is one of the bedrooms at Wootton Lodge, photographed by Country Life in March 1959.
Wootton Lodge was built as a hunting lodge by Sir Richard Fleetwood between about 1580 and 1610. It was ...
Banquet Hall, Alton Towers
A postcard view (looking north-east) of the Banquet Hall taken around 1927 when it was in use as a refreshment room. Over the years this room was also known as the Great Dining Room and the Dining Room. ...
Col. and Mrs Haszard, Milford Hall
A portrait of Col. Gerald Haszard and Mrs Dyonese Haszard (nee Levett) in the Sitting Room at Milford Hall.
The daughter of William and Maud Byrd Levett of Milford Hall, Dyonese Rosamund Levett was ...
Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, Ingestre
The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury are pictured in the Great Hall at Ingestre Hall, with their second son, Paul Alexander Anthony Bueno Chetwynd-Talbot, after the christening ceremony held at the estate ...
Fireplace, Broughton Hall
Broughton Hall was built for Sir Thomas Broughton in the mid-sixteenth century, possibly on the site of an earlier building. During the eighteenth century the ornate timber work was covered in plaster, ...
Fireplace, Ingestre Hall
A fireplace in the Yellow Drawing Room at Ingestre Hall. Ingestre Hall was built by Sir Walter Chetwynd in 1613. By the eighteenth century it had been acquired by the Talbots, who remodelled parts of ...
Lord Anglesey’s Sitting Room at Beaudesert Hall
Lord Anglesey’s Sitting Room was affected by the 1909 fire. During the repairs the room was altered by using a decorative scheme based on Plas Mawr, Conway.
Beaudesert Hall was the mansion of the ...
Staircase, Yarlet Hall
A postcard view of the staircase at Yarlet Hall.
Yarlet Hall replaced an earlier 18th century building; work on a new house was begun around 1870 by George Sidney. In 1873 The Reverend Walter Earle ...
Talbot Gallery, Alton Towers
The Talbot Gallery at Alton Towers.
Alton Towers was the home of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury. It was built between about 1810 and 1852.
The 15th Earl began adapting an existing 16th ...
The Dining Room at Wootton Lodge
Pictured is the Dining Room at Wootton Lodge. Photographed by Country Life and featured in their magazine in March 1959. The panelling dates from around 1700 and the fireplace has a plain bolection-moulding; ...
The Drawing Room at Wootton Lodge
Pictured is the Drawing Room at Wootton Lodge, photographed by Country Life and featured in their magazine in March 1959. The panelling dates from around 1700. The fireplace has changed at least three ...
The Entrance Hall, Chillington Hall
This view of the Entrance Hall at Chillington Hall was taken by County Life in 1948.
The Entrance Hall or Vestibule was designed by Sir John Soane. His screen of columns frames the view through the ...
The Flitch of Bacon, Wychnor Hall
Postcard view of a fireplace with the wooden 'Flitch of Bacon' mounted above it.
The 'Wychnor Flitch' is a manorial custom dating from the 14th century. The owners of the Hall would be obliged to ...
The Guard Room at Beaudesert Hall
Originally the Housekeeper's Room, this half basement room later became known as the Guard Room, which was situated by the east front entrance door. The Jacobean panelling was newly introduced and had ...
The Long Gallery at Beaudesert Hall
Following the 1909 fire in an adjacent part of the building renovations were made to the Long Gallery where traces survived from Lord Paget’s time. It was remodelled to restore its Elizabethan appearance. ...