#Jacobean houses

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Boston Manor House - a newly restored Jacobean house near Ealing

Boston Manor House counts as a Jacobean house (just) being built in 1623 by a widow, Mary Reade. It is quite near Brentford which saw action in the first Civil War, but apparently wasn't damaged.

Its just re-opened after extensive restorations. Pride of place goes to the spectacular plaster ceiling in the main state room, although the guide wasn't impressed that they'd removed the later colouring to show it in all its original whiteness.

The details of the ceiling were mainly female personifications of abstract qualities. On the fireplace they had a religious motif - the sacrifice of Isaac.

Apparently these type of stripy hangings were popular in the 17th century, although I've never come across them before.

This wallpaper from 1757 is unusual in showing classical ruins inspired by the Grand Tour and perhaps early signs of incipient romanticism.

All in all a unique and rather special place.

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Audley End House (reconstruction),

Saffron Walden, Essex, United Kingdom,

Courtesy: © Web Gallery of Art.

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Day out to Rufford Old Hall yesterday. Was owned by the Hesketh Family till 1936. Was built around 1530 and was added and changed over time. Inside, it has an incredible carved wooden screen dating to 1500s.

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I love your poll about the house museums, i have been to many because it was an interest of my mother's growing up. I wanted to share about tour-able mansions in Rhode Island, USA. They are full of history and feel incredibly haunted.

Oh, in Newport? Yeah, those are really cool!

They were summer homes for the hyper-wealthy of (mostly) New York City, and really functioned more as event venues than family houses. The scale and grandeur of most of them boggles the mind:

(The Breakers, built in 1893-95 for the Vanderbilt family. This is the grandest of them all, but the one I've visited- Rosecliff -wasn't far behind.)

One of my friends used to work at the mansions- one organization runs all of them, as museums -and she says some are haunted. I'm not going to tell you which ones, though; that seems like it would spoil the fun.

Happy touring!

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Detail of a fireplace at Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Blickling is a fine Jacobean house by Robert Lyminge built on the site of an earlier house. It was extensively remodelled in the eighteenth century.

The Fireplace, 1994

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Barrington Hall

Hi guys!!

I'm sharing Barrington Hall. This is the 21st building for my English Collection and inaugurating the red brick collection.

I decorated most of the house ground floor, for reference.

History of the house: 

The Barrington family, long-established in Essex since the Conquest, initially resided at Old Barrington Hall. This estate, shown on a 1624 map, included substantial structures, orchards, fish ponds, and brickyards. However, in 1564, they moved to the Priory at Hatfield Broad Oak, signaling their ascent as country gentry. Throughout the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the family engaged in legal disputes over rights to Hatfield Forest with the Rich family, eventually securing a portion of the forest.

Sir Francis Barrington played a significant role in government, receiving a baronetcy in 1622. The family also had investments in New England and Ireland during this period. Despite their growing wealth, the Priory required repairs by 1700 and was demolished, causing the Barringtons to relocate to Great Waltham. The family seat at Hatfield Broad Oak was eventually rebuilt in the 1730s by John Shales Barrington, although he left it unfinished, leading to his reclusive life.

In the 19th century, George Alan Clayton Lowndes acquired the estate and made extensive neo-Jacobean renovations to the house and gardens, which were lauded in contemporary publications. After multiple ownership changes, including the purchase by A.H. Gosling in 1907, the property was later sold to the British Livestock Company and is now owned by CPL Aromas plc. The original parkland has been divided, with only 12 hectares surrounding the house remaining as part of the current estate. The landscape includes notable trees such as ancient oaks, as well as remnants of historic avenues and garden features.

More history: https://www.francisyork.com/blog/barrington-hall-a-palatial-georgian-mansion-one-hour-from-london

House file:

Location: Essex, England

Material: red brick

Style: Neo-Jacobean

Date:  1624 + remodelings

This house fits a 50x50  lot, but it coulf fit a 50x40 if you lose the garden.

I only decorated some of the important rooms. All the rest of the house is up to your taste to decor.

Hope you like it.

You will need the usual CC I use:

all Felixandre cc

all The Jim

SYB

Anachrosims

Regal Sims

King Falcon railing

The Golden Sanctuary

Cliffou

Dndr recolors

Harrie cc

Tuds

Lili's palace cc

Please enjoy, comment if you like the house and share pictures of your game!

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Ealry acces: November 20

DOWNLOAD: https://www.patreon.com/posts/barrington-hall-113325949

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A Jacobean gem, The Hall is notable for its extensive use of glass.

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lange nie mì gheziejn

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ben jonson's new masque was exquisite. if you care

#don't ask me how i saw it lest i doxx myself and bring dishonour to my noble family but i saw it. #his poetry illuminates some deep deep crevices in me 🤤 #diary

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so, they're finally taking up those fucking alehouse patents in parliament. here's what i'm hoping will happen:

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it still baffles the mind how our king let himself be tricked by such a knavish device lmao. either he is that foolish... or the pamphlets are right.

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RIP to my wife's special friend's husband. his widow and their 8 children will find refuge with us so i may be too busy to update the tract for a while, sorry men.

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The outdated style I dislike most is the decade of the 70s. This home is an example of why. (I bought an 80s house and it was so dated that I couldn't afford to redo it, and that's the problem you have to consider when buying, even if the price is lower.) This one, in Ottawa, Illinois, was built in 1970 & has 4bds, 3ba, $325K.

Okay, this is just silly. Cut the hedges back, the lions look like they're in giant green butt cracks. Let's go inside- I hope you enjoy this 70s throwback.

The oval leaded glass door with 2 side lights were the gold standard, as well as the pony wall planter, spindles and red carpet.

The 70s introduced large stone fireplace walls. In contrast, there was fussy, fancy, metal (or plastic) grill work, as seen in the doorway.

The 70s changed the color of wood- it became extremely dark, through the magic of Jacobean stain. The style included faux brick (which was not yet perfected and looked so faux), carpeted kitchens and ornate cabinetry with plate rails.

But the most distinctive feature was the kitchen lamp post. Even if I gutted this kitchen, I would keep that lamp post, b/c it's such a classic. I've even seen them built into the middle of kitchen tables. (Note the faux brick backsplash.)

Variations of this beloved bedroom set were in so many homes. Even my grandparents had one (and I inherited it). Plus portraits of the children on black velvet.

Wallpaper, fancy and flocked, even if it didn't match the style of the room.

There was a Toile Revival, too.

And, big, dark heavy furniture with fancy foo-foo ruffled fabric or fabric with eyelet borders. Notice the architectural detail of the bed on a platform with a heating vent for practicality.

This fireplace was redone- they removed the mantle, in favor of a shelf, and framed in the hearth so they could display statuary.

It was also the advent of the wall-to-wall carpeted bathroom and tub draperies.

Note that red shag carpeting fades over time, and also pills, balls up, and irretrievably matts down. Check out what looks like a lighted nativity scene in the fireplace.

Ah, the manufactured "colonial" creations. Hanging metal fireplaces adorned with eagles and sofas with spindles, pleated skirts, and pastoral or historic Americana scenes. Wherever there was an opening, put up a fancy railing and/or panel.

What a bonus! A home beauty salon! Also, note the textured paneling and another popular feature- jigsaw cutout wood valances on everything from the kitchen cabinets to windows, to walls. (Also, there's a good example of how red carpet fades, in the corner.)

Some outer details (note the cutout valance even on the roof of the house).

I didn't expect a farm, but there're definitely barns and a silo on the property.

3.67 acres of land.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2855-E-13th-Rd-Ottawa-IL-61350/115664434_zpid/

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sigh. you can come in for cuddles and scritches as long as you stop launching yourself out the goddamn window

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I am wide awake !!!!

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A magnificent Jacobean, 17th-century house for sale, Somerset, UK For sale at £3,300,000 ($4,396,421), Inigo Estate Agents

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It's actually a Jacobean house! Not a repro! This was, for me, the exciting revelation early in chapter VII of The Valley of Fear, the most recent Letters from Watson. While this makes me embarrassingly wrong, being anywhere in the vicinity of Sherlock Holmes is a recipe for being embarrassingly wrong about something, so I feel myself to be in good company.

This implies Birlstone Manor is something along the lines of Ludstone Hall, which is massive and impressive.

Someone who grew up with English history needs to weigh in on whether "King Charles I hid here" was a sly joke, similar to ones in American novels where every realtor claims "George Washington slept here" for old houses on the eastern seaboard. There seem to have been military campaigns in that part of the England in 1644, but there seem to have been military campaigns everywhere in England, Wales, and portions of Scotland in 1644.

Hidey-holes had already become an architectural tradition by the time Birlstone Manor was built. The National Trust has a lovely tour page of Elizabethan "priest holes" here.

It looks like we're winding ourselves up for another plunge into American history, with the fictional Vermissa Valley, in the coal and iron mining hills of Pennsylvania. So let's get ready with a map of iron and steel producers and a separate map of coal mining sites. These don't narrow the location much, but don't spoiler it for me! Part of the fun is figuring out from clues in the text what exactly is going on.