Barnwell Manor

Barnwell Manor is in stately country house in Barnwell near Oundle, Northamptonshire in England. Until 1995, he served as the residence of Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Since that year, it is the seat of an antiques trade and closed to the public. In May 1967, the house was classified by English Heritage as a Grade II.

The property

The property currently comprises 10 square kilometers and is managed by the current Duke of Gloucester. In addition to the mansion are still low, single storey farm buildings and the ruins of Barnwell Castle on the premises.

The masonry of the two-storey mansion consists of hewn limestone, and is completed by a slated roof. Its current building stock dating mainly to the 18th and 19th centuries, but there are also some parts that date from the late 16th or early 17th century.

The 40 -room building includes, among others, four reception rooms, seven bedrooms and six bathrooms main. The large entrance hall has oak paneling from the 17th century and a stucco ceiling with ornaments in the form of vines. Links of the portal is to be found - incorporated into the paneling - the emblem of the Montagu family.

History

The builder of Barnwell Castle, Berenger le Moyne, sold his castle in 1276 to the monastery of Ramsay Abbey, in whose possession it remained until the dissolution of the monastery in 1536. In that year the property was transferred to the English king Henry VIII. Who gave the estate in 1540 to the Montagu family. Probably built this - after the use of the old castle had been completely abandoned - Barnwell Manor as a new residence, possibly involving an existing building. Under their aegis saw Barnwell Manor during the 17th century such illustrious guests as the English King Charles I. or the poet John Dryden.

In the middle of the 18th century and at the end or at the beginning of the 19th century, among others, changes in the central part of the garden -side façade were made. The two small side wings came around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century to do so.

The Montagu sold the estate in 1913 to Horace Czarnikov, the so-called Append the Drawing room wing and some changes to the farm buildings had to make. 1938 acquired Henry, Duke of Gloucester Barnwell Manor, the seat of the ancestors of his wife Alice. She was a daughter of John Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th duke of Buccleuch. The couple hired the architect Sir Albert Richardson, according to the plans, the interior of the house was rebuilt.

In 1995, the residential use of the manor house was abandoned and it was leased to an antique shop, which uses the historic rooms as an exhibition space for its furniture and paintings.