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The original house at Kenwood was probably built in the early 17th century. It was transformed by Robert Adam in the 1760s and 1770s into a fine neoclassical villa for the 1st Earl of Mansfield - the greatest judge of his day. In 1925 it was bought by a member of the Guiness family to house his art collection. It was taken over by English Heritage in 1986. In 2012 an extensive refurbishment costing nearly £6 million was started -the house re-opened to the public at the end of 2013.

www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/kenwood/hi...

Every room is different, with a variety of furnishings, wallpaper, plasterwork.

Gables and plasterwork on a parade of shops.

Plasterwork.

Throne room, Hardwick Hall

Willesden Green Old (1894) Library.

Detail of plasterwork inside the Tower Theater

great plasterwork, reminds me of all of the stuff from the worlds fair, very california

More of the ornate Plasterwork that survives the ravages of weather and man ..

Probably C17th, instead of standing proud, this plasterwork is inverted almost like the reverse of the mold. National Trust property taken in Yorkshire in 2014

Ceiling detail in the Elizabethan House museum. It's an overused adjective but the colour and texture really were creamy.

This is the ornate ceiling of the Octagon Room at Orleans House. The reason I have not been posting very riveting images and have taken some time to post these at all, is that is that I have been working hard on the organisation and hanging of an exhibition for artsrichmond with photographs submitted from people across the Borough.

I spent the morning putting up the display boards and hanging the prints prior to the Private View later in the day which went really well.

You can really see the difference between the marble panels at the bottom and the plasterwork above.

Painted plasterwork on the facade

A rich brewer,s home in Nuernberg Germany.

Chastleton House, Chastleton near Moreton-in-Marsh, Oxfordshire

Great Chamber

A frieze incorporates a total of 24 painted roundels representing 12 Old Testament prophets and their pagan female counterparts, the 12 sibyls of antiquity (who also had the gift of prophecy).

left to right:

The Libyan Sibyl holding an Olive or Myrtle Branch

The European Sibyl

Moses with the tablets of law

The Prophet Isaiah

King David with Harp

Decorative plasterwork the Old Hall at Hardwick Derbyshire.

1639 plasterwork over the chancel arch showing the Ascension done when Christopher Wrens father was vicar

Plaster ceiling in the Great Chamber

Hardwick Hall, N T, Derbyshire

Hardwick Old Hall

Mr William Cavendish's Chamber

Oak panelled and benefitting from the heat from the bread ovens and pastry below. Plaster overmantel shows Naphtali (founder of one of the tribes of israel) astride a stag (Cavendish heraldic symbol).

Palacio da Pena, Sintra, Portugal

An unusual pattern on the old plasterwork

18th Century AD house with floral plasterwork reliefs over doors and windows. Bielefeld, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. Bielefeld was thoroughly flattened during WWII. Pleasant town center, but very few historical buildings.

Once gleaming white but much of the ornate plasterwork was removed and taken to Naples museum.

the shape is done, to be finished with tiles on a few plateaus and the plasterwork! :-)

Came across this in the depths... made me smile.

Detail of wall plasterwork