Something old, something new
Jan 12, 2022
2 minutes
Edited by Annunciata Elwes
SHELL-ENCRUSTED follies, minstrels’ galleries, observatories and private Victorian art galleries: these days, architects may be more likely to add a cinema room, sauna or living roof, but British country houses are still appreciated for their quirks, generated by fashion, the peculiarities of whimsy, by historic divisions of household labour and even dodgy ‘cures’ for ailments.
In the late 18th century at Wentworth Woodhouse in
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