Appuldurcombe House (English Heritage Guidebooks)

by L.O.J.Boynton (Author)

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  1986

  $3.81

  The house dates from early in the eighteenth century. It was enlarged and altered some seventy years later. Sadly it has been uninhabited since 1909 and by 1954 it was a ruin, but after restoration, mainly to the great hall and projecting wings, it is once again a beautiful building. At the end of the eighteenth century the park was landscaped by 'Capability' Brown. The house is still in a very attractive setting but much of the former parkland is now farmed. This handbook contains a descriptive tour followed by the history of the house and those who built and lived in it.