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Welcome to Jack Hall's RevivalHeritage blog!I aim to post visual evidence of lost country houses and estates plus other material that celebrates the work of artists, architects, designers, builders,...
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Willingham House Lincolnshire
Willingham House, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. RevivalHeritage summary of the house history and its final destruction in 1967.Willingham House early C20th South entrance front. REVIVALHERITAGE...
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Paxton Park St Neots Cambridgeshire
C18-19thIt is unclear when the original house was built but records suggest that it was in the last half of the C18th for the Pointer family. It could possibly have replaced an earlier building. It...
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Newhill Hall Wath on Dearne
Newhill Hall Wath on Dearne South YorkshireJohn Payne was a wealthy farmer and Quaker who lived at Newhill Grange, Wath upon Dearne. He also owned lead mines and had shares in Derbyshire and...
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Stourton Hall Lincolnshire - the lost neo-palladian house
Stourton Hall LincolnshireThe estate at Stourton near Baumber, in central Lincolnshire didn’t have a substantial house before the arrival of the Livesey family in the late eighteenth century. The first...
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Bitteswell Hall Leicestershire
Bitteswell Hall near Lutterworth, Leicestershire was built in 1838 for William Corbet Smith, Esq. a Captain in the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, and was the centre of a 600 acre estate. It was in a simple...
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Sandwell Hall Staffordshire
The ‘new’ Sandwell Hall was (re)built from 1703 by the master builder William Smith of Warwick. He was the brother of the prolific master builder Francis who had recently completed Dudmaston Hall, a...
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Swarland Park Northumberland. The lost Carr house.
Swarland Park was built for Davison Richard Grieve(high sheriff of Northumberland in 1788) in 1765 by the architect John Carr of York in the classical style. He had made his fortune as a merchant and...
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Grainsby Hall Lincolnshire - The lost Italianate mansion
Grainsby derives its name not from farmed grain but from Scandinavian derivation, the word for branch of a river. The area is covered in small tributaries to the river Humber. The manor of Grainsby...
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Wonersh Park, Surrey
Wonersh Park (or Wonersh House), Surrey was a C17th brick house with later additions. Richard Gwynne was a retired clothworker from London who took possession of a part of the Wonersh estate in 1677...
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Stockwood House, Luton, Bedfordshire
This is the NW entrance front of Stockwood House viewed from the north at the end of the 500m drive which still exists today along with the neighbouring stable block. The house was built in 1740 for...
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Ravenscourt Park, Hammersmith, London
Formerly called Paddenswick House (manor) a house had stood on this site since the C12th. The C13th manor which had a moat was rebuilt in 1650. In 1747 the house was renamed Ravenscourt by the owner...
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Canwell Hall Staffordshire - James Wyatt C1800
Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd Baronet acquired the estate of the dissolved Benedictine priory (1149-1525) at Canwell, Staffordshire in the late C17th. A house was built on the site of the old priory some...
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Trebartha Hall Cornwall
The origins of the original Trebartha hall appear to stretch back as far as 1300 as the Trabartha family house, but some accounts state the building date as 1500 and the Spoures family living there....
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Ruskin Manor, Denmark Hill, London
South-east garden front view of Ruskin Manor, a substantial brick house built between the late C18th and early C19th.Ruskin Manor (as it was later named) was once the family home of John Ruskin from...
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Cottingham Grange Yorkshire
The name of Cottingham derives from the name of a 5thcentury Anglo-Saxon tribal chief and means 'Homestead of Cotta's people'. Cotta is derived from an Acient Briton female deity called ‘Ket’, in turn...
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Dunglass House Berwickshire
This view shows the west front of Dunglass House which was the back of the house.It was built on the site of the C14th Dunglass Castle, of which nothing remains. The architect was Richard Crichton who...
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