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plasterwork up at the top of the gable
small columns and shallow bay window in the gable
frieze and brackets at the top of the second floor
Hartford and 18th Streets - Moby Dick Bar
Eureka Valley ~ The Castro
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Merchant's house, now public house. 1611 date in plasterwork to 2nd floor left-hand chamber. MATERIALS: render on timber-frame to steep pair of front gables carried on moulded oak corbels; dry slate roofs; painted rubble to side wall on right, rubble external lateral stack to right-hand return and rubble stack with brick shaft to rear gable. PLAN: deep plan including rear wing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with 2nd floor partly in roof space; 2-window range; wide C17 3-light (internally ovolo-moulded) mullioned window within moulded architraves and with later casements with glazing bars to 2nd-floor gables; early C19 16-pane hornless sashes within moulded architraves to 1st floor. Ground floor has original central chamfered oak doorway with unusual original door with 2 small panels within 2 large panels flanked by original 2-light mullioned windows with fixed casements with glazing bars; early/mid C18 lights with thick glazing bars on the left; early/mid C18 lights with thick glazing bars on the left; late C18 or early C19 lights on the right. Right-hand return has C20 windows except for mid/late C19 8-pane sash towards right with C20 horned copy on its left. INTERIOR: original features include: front room: chamfered axial beams (3 bays) and joists; short section of original moulded plank and muntin screen right of entrance and some panelling visible under ovolo-moulded window on right. Central at rear of front range is pair of winder stairs with ships' spars as newels. Front attics have parts of original roof trusses visible; left-hand attic has rare original plasterwork to overmantle, including 1611 date. Original roof structure to rear wing on right with lap-dovetail collar joints to trusses. Rear left-hand parallel wing has early C19 roof structure with pegged collars (C16 or early C17 12-panel studded door stored in this attic at time of survey). EH Listing
Chastleton House, Chastleton near Moreton-in-Marsh, Oxfordshire
The Middle Chamber
Painted stone overmantel combining arms of Henry Jones and Anne Fettiplace who married in 1609.
C17th double plasterwork frieze with pomegranates, grapes? and pears.
Hardwick Hall, N T, Derbyshire
Hardwick Old Hall
Great Hall where the lower servants and their visitors took their meals. Bess had a dining room upstairs where she ate with her family and ladies in waiting.
Plasterwork overmantel shows the stag, symbol of the Cavendish family. William Cavendish was her second husband and the father of her eight children.
Osborne House, English Heritage, East Cowes, Isle of Wight. The Durbar Room The deeply-coffered ceilings of the Durbar Room are patterned on the ceiling ornamentation found in medieval Jain temples such as those at Mount Abu in Rajasthan. In February 1893, Queen Victoria wrote in her journal, 'We dined in the Durbar Room which was lit by electric light & looked beautiful'. Copies of the original carpet from Agra, the curtains, and the lighting were installed in the Durbar Room in 2001 to mark the centenary of Queen Victoria's death, thus recreating the look of the room as it was around 1900.designed and carved the wooden moulds that were used by the plasterers to create the wall and ceiling decoration.
Plas Mawr, High Street, Conwy.
Grade l listed.
The most complete large Elizabethan town house in Wales, exceptional for its state of preservation and with interior plasterwork of national importance.
The Great Chamber.
In the great chamber is a fireplace with marble chimney piece incorporating a corbelled lintel, and plaster overmantel with the garter arms and monogram of Elizabeth I. Around the room is a frieze of cartoon-like caryatids below the cornice. The ribbed ceiling incorporates geometrical patterns, including ribs radiating from roundels that incorporate heraldic devices.
Plas Mawr was built in stages between 1576 and c1585. Robert Wynn had acquired a 'mansion house' from Hugh Merche in 1570, and in the 1st phase, dated 1576-77, added a wing to the existing house which is now the north wing of the main house. The old 'mansion house' was subsequently demolished and in 1580 an entrance range and south wing were added in its place that, with the north wing of 1576-77, formed a U-shaped house facing Crown Lane and enclosing a rear courtyard. Finally, in 1585 Wynn obtained the plot on the corner of High Street and Crown Lane. This allowed him to build a separate gatehouse facing High Street, which now became the main entrance to Plas Mawr, superseding the original entrance in the relatively narrow Crown Lane. A lower courtyard is between gatehouse and main house. The house and gatehouse are among the earliest examples of the fashion for crow-stepped gables. The main house was lavishly decorated with plasterwork, a relatively recent innovation in Wales.
The house remained in the family until after 1683 when Elin Wynn married Robert Wynne of Bodysgallen, and thereafter Plas Mawr was only a minor family house. Ownership later passed by marriage to the Mostyn family. Subsequent use of the building made surprisingly little impact on its original interiors. In the C18 part of the gatehouse was used as a courthouse, and the main house was subdivided into tenements. Between 1839 and 1886 part of the south wing was occupied by a school. The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art took the building as their headquarters in 1887, and used it as a gallery. In 1993 Plas Mawr was placed in the guardianship of the state,and has since undergone substantial restoration.
Trerice
National Trust
near Newquay, Cornwall
Great Chamber
Plasterwork arms of Henry FitzAlan, 24th and last FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel and Knight of the Garter, showing part of the frieze and barrel ceiling.
Plas Mawr, High Street, Conwy.
Grade l listed.
The most complete large Elizabethan town house in Wales, exceptional for its state of preservation and with interior plasterwork of national importance.
The Great Chamber Overmantel.
In the great chamber is a fireplace with marble chimney piece incorporating a corbelled lintel, and plaster overmantel with the garter arms and monogram of Elizabeth I. Around the room is a frieze of cartoon-like caryatids below the cornice. The ribbed ceiling incorporates geometrical patterns, including ribs radiating from roundels that incorporate heraldic devices.
Plas Mawr was built in stages between 1576 and c1585. Robert Wynn had acquired a 'mansion house' from Hugh Merche in 1570, and in the 1st phase, dated 1576-77, added a wing to the existing house which is now the north wing of the main house. The old 'mansion house' was subsequently demolished and in 1580 an entrance range and south wing were added in its place that, with the north wing of 1576-77, formed a U-shaped house facing Crown Lane and enclosing a rear courtyard. Finally, in 1585 Wynn obtained the plot on the corner of High Street and Crown Lane. This allowed him to build a separate gatehouse facing High Street, which now became the main entrance to Plas Mawr, superseding the original entrance in the relatively narrow Crown Lane. A lower courtyard is between gatehouse and main house. The house and gatehouse are among the earliest examples of the fashion for crow-stepped gables. The main house was lavishly decorated with plasterwork, a relatively recent innovation in Wales.
The house remained in the family until after 1683 when Elin Wynn married Robert Wynne of Bodysgallen, and thereafter Plas Mawr was only a minor family house. Ownership later passed by marriage to the Mostyn family. Subsequent use of the building made surprisingly little impact on its original interiors. In the C18 part of the gatehouse was used as a courthouse, and the main house was subdivided into tenements. Between 1839 and 1886 part of the south wing was occupied by a school. The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art took the building as their headquarters in 1887, and used it as a gallery. In 1993 Plas Mawr was placed in the guardianship of the state,and has since undergone substantial restoration.
A particularly fine example of a medieval brick castle, it later fell into decay, but was meticulously restored in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the conservation techniques now accepted as standard were evolved here. Following severe damage in the Second World War it was once again restored, using the detailed documentation prepared by earlier conservators.
History
The mansion was built by Sir Edward Culpeper in 1590. It originally formed a complete courtyard prior to being altered various times, and currently has an E-shaped plan. Wakehurst was bought in 1694 by Dennis Lyddell, comptroller of the Royal Navy treasurer's accounts and briefly MP for Harwich. His son Richard Liddell, Chief Secretary for Ireland and MP for Bossiney, was obliged by financial pressure to pass the estate to his younger brother Charles.[5]
The house was illustrated in Joseph Nash's The Mansions of England in the Olden Time (1839–49).
The gardens were largely created by Gerald Loder (later Lord Wakehurst) who purchased the estate in 1903 and spent 33 years developing the gardens.[6] He was succeeded by Sir Henry Price, under whose care the Loder plantings matured. Sir Henry left Wakehurst to the nation in 1963 and the Royal Botanic Gardens took up a lease from the National Trust in 1965.
In 1887, American architect Dudley Newton completed a replica of Wakehurst in Newport, Rhode Island, for sportsman and politician James J. Van Alen from plans designed by Charles Eamer Kempe. Salve Regina University purchased the mansion from the Van Alen family in 1972.[7]
In 2022, the mansion was closed for an extensive renovation, predicted to last at least two years. Wikipedia
www.kew.org/wakehurst/planRoam our magnificent living plant collection
Our collections at Wakehurst are planted to a 'woodland' principle, rather than an 'arboretum' and have been especially curated to accentuate the stunning, rural natural landscape.
They are connected to form a Woodlands of the World walk.
What is a Living Plant Collection?
A living collection is what sets a botanic garden apart from a park or public garden.
It is a group of plants grown especially for research, conservation, education purposes or ornamental display.
To help our visitors understand and learn from this work, we accurately identify and document the plants at Wakehurst. ts
Remnants of plasterwork above the fireplace in the Forest High Great Chamber. This plasterwork would have been brightly painted.
Northampton U3A had a coach trip to see Chatsworth House at Christmas. The decorations were on the theme of Hans Christian Anderson fairy stories, and were quite magical. It was a beautiful sunny, but cold winter's day, and it was lovely to walk around the extensive gardens.
Detail of the ceiling decoration in the Ante-library
part of the buildings that are gonna get knocked down to make way for the new motorway. Hutt Valley, NZ