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An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these people, the term distinguished between town and country. However, the term also encompasses houses that were ...
Aug 19, 2022 · The English country house dates back to the times of Tudor England, with large homes belonging to feudal lords being the first of their type to be built without fortifications. The relative social stability of the time, combined with the impact of Henry VIII ’s Dissolution of the Monasteries Act produced a notable upsurge in the creation of a number of country houses.
Aug 3, 2022 · Though 'English country house style' has never been exclusively English, was perfected by an American, and pops up in Clapham nearly as often as in the Cotswolds, its decorative tropes are instantly recognisable: a mix of antique furnishings, at least one capacious sofa with a generous serving of cushions, rugs, table lamps with fabric shades ...
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Jan 8, 2023 · That view would later be echoed in a 1950 government report of defining importance to the subsequent history of the country house. The Gower Report, so called, stated that these buildings ‘should, so far as possible, be preserved as private residences occupied preferably by the families connected with them’.
Sep 12, 2014 · The ‘Destruction of the Country House‘ laid bare the scale and depth of the losses the UK had suffered, showing how four centuries of architectural tradition and achievement in country houses had been severely damaged by the depredations of the 20th-Century. It was conceived as a dramatic display to waken the nation to the threat faced by country houses and the danger faced by all aspects ...
The Country House Cumbria has been lovingly restored by its current custodians into a 21st century dream home whilst retaining all the charm and heritage of the buildings history. Walk the fells, find waterfalls and rivers and come home to crackling fires, cook up a storm in the kitchen, drinks in the orangery, late-night pool games and the joy of togetherness.
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The country house also acted as a repository for collections of art and artefacts, which exhibited fashion, taste and wealth. The connection of the elite house and its holding of land was established in the Middle Ages.
