[106488] South Rauceby Hall

South Rauceby Hall, Lincolnshire, 1842.

By William Burn (1789-1870).

For Anthony Peacock Willson (1811-1866), banker.

Grade ll listed.

Inherited by the Cracroft-Amcotts family, it remains a private home.

Detail of Entrance Front.

 

Born in Edinburgh in 1789, William Burn was to become one of the most prolific and sought after country house architects of the nineteenth century.

 

Burn’s output, predominantly domestic, was aesthetically diverse, choosing to lead taste and pioneering the revival of several architectural styles. His country house commissions number in excess of 300 and are located throughout Scotland, England and Ireland.

 

Through an understanding of how his clients lived and ordered their lives, Burn was able to arrange their living spaces with unparalleled precision, and when combined with a compositional mastery the result was some of the most instructive country houses of the nineteenth century.

 

 

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