[98212] Lanhydrock House : Jeakes of Bloomsbury

Lanhydrock House, Cornwall.

The National Trust.

Grade l listed.

 

C Jeakes & Co of 51 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London.

Makers of kitchen equipment.

Jeakes's products may be found in the kitchens of a number of large National Trust houses.

 

Lanhydrock was built in 1630-42 for the Robartes family who rose from merchants and bankers to the peerage as Barons of Truro and then Earls of Radnor. The house was partly destroyed by fire in 1881 and was rebuilt by Richard Coad, an ex-pupil of George Gilbert Scott. Almost all that survives of the 17th-century interiors is the 116-ft long gallery and its superb barrel-vaulted ceiling containing 24 main panels depicting incidents from the Old Testament. Meanwhile, Coad’s neo-Jacobean interiors are a splendid expression of late Victorian comfort and prosperity.

 

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