Speke Hall

Speke Hall is a stately, a courtyard enclosing a complex of buildings in the Tudor style of the 16th century in Speke, Liverpool / England. The house is considered one of the outstanding, and this well-preserved examples of the distinctive half-timbered architecture in the time of the Tudor dynasty. Today's owner is the National Trust.

History

Speke Hall was built for the Norris family, and the emergence of the building lasted from about 1490 to 1613; nevertheless show all four wings of the same architectural style. The Norris family lived in the house for several generations until the female heiress married into the Beauclerk family. 1795 finally bought the Watts family, the House of the Beauclerk.

Interior

The oldest part is the large living room with a huge fireplace at one end of the room. The spectacular ceiling from the early 17th century is decorated with motifs of fruit and flowers.

In the courtyard contribute two as ' Adam and Eve ' yew known for muted, dominated by wall panels and heavy oak furniture atmosphere interiors. They were first mentioned in the 18th century, but may be considerably older than Speke Hall.

Exterior

The current design of the garden dates back to the period after 1855, when the twenty -year-old Richard Watts inherited the estate and the restoration and beautification of planting tackled. After Watts sudden death daughter sat the then tenant, Frederick Leyland, and from 1878 Watts to work on. Another phase with fundamental improvements began in 1986 in the final takeover by the National Trust. So a pretty arrangement of bedding and shrub roses was created amid low growing flowers in the fenced area outside the Grand Salon.

The sandy soil of the property is well suited for Rhododendron, which was planted in the second half of the 19th century on a large scale and still is prominent in many places.