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Beheadings, a duplicitous solicitor and a Rembrandt for the price of an Oasis ticket: The sorry story of Sprotborough Hall (opens the original)
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When Sprotborough Hall, Doncaster, was put up for auction in 1925, it had a reserve price of £5,000. The property dated back to the reformation and end of the reign of Charles II. From the 17th century, the house remained in the same family. That family would, in a twist of sublime historical fate, eventually reclaim the title of Baron Cromwell — although not that Cromwell. Solicitor Mr Frederic Stockton Gowland of Ripon was the only person who bid over the reserve, securing the three-centuries
Country Life's 'unusually hurried and ill-composed photographs' of a curious home eviscerated by The Blitz (opens the original)
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John Robartes, the 4th Earl of Radnor, was not a fashionable man. He lived at Radnor House, in between Horace Walpole's (Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford) Gothic wonder that is Strawberry Hill and Alexander Pope's Villa on a highly desirable stretch of the River Thames in Twickenham. In the Georgian era, the then village west of London was very fashionable and the place to see, be seen in and, ideally, live. Lord Radnor remodelled the riverside building in 1745 in an ornate Gothic style, whic
The rise and ruin of an Elizabethan Hall that tried in vain to prepare a war poet for the trenches (opens the original)
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Charlotte Anne Fletcher was just 12 years old when she inherited her family's business. Her early years were split between London and the more tranquil surrounds of Peel Hall (not to be confused with Kenyon Peel Hall, in the same Lancashire village) — a new-build property, reportedly designed by Charles Barry for her grandfather, Matthew Fletcher. The Fletchers’ wealth came from coal and it was this 'black gold' that Charlotte inherited following the untimely deaths of her mother, Anne, in Febru
Thomas Becket, a lion and the author of 'Out of Africa' all lived in this medieval monastery photographed for Country Life (opens the original)
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If you’ve ever owned or been owned by a cat you’ll know that they like to loll in the most inconvenient places (on top of laptop keyboards in the middle of a high-pressure meeting, for example) and refuse to move until they, and only they, are ready. The same feline stubbornness was rumoured to have greeted Victorian visitors to the country estate of Murray Edward Gordon Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea and 7th Earl of Nottingham. In the drawing room, guests would often be greeted by the Ea
Even a visit from Queen Mary couldn't save this 15th-century Yorkshire mansion from Britain's coal industry (opens the original)
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The only surprise about Methley Hall’s demise is that it didn't come sooner. Demolished in 1963, the writing had been firmly etched on the wall of the West Yorkshire property since at least the Victorian era. Methley Hall was purchased by John Savile in 1588. His descendants who go on to become the the Earls of Mexborough. Despite being extensively remodelled by Anthony Salvin in the 1830’s, the property was regularly left unoccupied and fell into a state of considerable disrepair. However, it w
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