Henbury Hall
Henbury Hall is a country house about a mile southwest of the village of Henbury in the English county of Cheshire . The current house was built in the 1980s in the Palladian style . The model was Palladio's Villa Capra “La Rotonda” .
history
A house called Henbury Hall already existed in the area in the 1600s.
A classical house was built there in 1742. In 1779 it was sold by Sir William Meredith to John Bower Jodrell for £ 24,000 and in 1796 it fell to his son Francis Bower Jodrell . John Charles Ryde , banker and MP from Macclesfield , bought it for £ 54,000 in 1835 and sold it to Thomas Marsland (1776-1854), Stockport's first paramilitary in 1842, after it went bankrupt . At the beginning of the 19th century, the house was rebuilt in a stricter, classical style and then in the 1850s it was decorated with stucco and drastically reduced in size. The property fell to Thomas Marsland's grandson Edward Marsland († 1857), whose widow Jane Marsland was forced to sell after a terrible flood in 1872.
The property was bought by the local silk manufacturer Thomas Unett Brocklehurst and had the house remodeled for £ 9,000. In 1876 Brocklehurst allegedly imported a pair of gray squirrels from America and released them on the estate. This ultimately had dire consequences for native squirrel populations . The Brocklehurst family stayed at Henbury Hall for several generations.
In 1957 Sir Vincent Ferranti bought the property. He had the classicist house torn down and commissioned the architect Harry Fairhurst to convert the stables into his home. After the death of Sir Vincent in 1980, his son Sebastian Ferranti and the designer Felix Kelly , who had already done some work on the property, had the idea of building a house in the style of a Palladian temple. Kelly made an oil painting based on Palladio's villa "La Rotonda" near Vicenza, built in 1552 . Sebastian Ferranti then commissioned the architect Julian Bicknell to draw plans based on Kelly's painting. The new house was completed in 1996. Sebastian Ferranti lives there with his wife Gillian .
architecture
Exterior
Henbury Hall is a brick and concrete construction . The facades are clad with limestone from north-east France ; the roof is made of local stone. The dome is covered with lead and the lantern is made of gunmetal and gilded copper . The floor plan is 17 meters × 17 meters and is double axially symmetrical. There is a rusticated basement and a portico with Ionic columns on each side . A staircase leads up to the south facade. There is a Venetian window in each portico . Life-size statues by Simon Verity stand on the ornamental pediments. A dome with a lantern is placed on top of the house.
inside rooms
The dining room and salon are on the upper floor, de Beletage , on the east and west side of a large central hall that extends into the dome. Smaller rooms are located at the corners. On the ground floor, kitchens and quarters for the staff are arranged around the central hall. On the upper floor there is a gallery above the central hall, from which six bedrooms with bathrooms and dressing rooms are accessible. The central hall has a floor made of English limestone and Purbeck marble . The interior was designed by David Mlinaric , the carved door frames are by Dick Reid from York .
comparison
Even if Henbury Hall is based on the villa "La Rotonda", there are noticeable differences. The biggest difference is the English country house's smaller floor plan. Each portico has only four instead of six columns. The Venetian windows were inserted behind the portico. The entrance is on the ground floor and not on the first floor, as is the case with the Italian villa. Henbury Hall's dome is higher than that of “La Rotonda”.
Individual references and comments
- ^ A b c d Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde, Edward Hubbard, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England . Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2011 (1971). ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 . Chapter: Cheshire . Pp. 395-396.
- ↑ a b c d Peter de Figueiredo, Julian Treuherz: Cheshire Country Houses . Phillimore, Chichester 1988. ISBN 0-85033-655-4 . Pp. 111-114.
- ^ Welcome to Henbury village . Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
- ↑ William Courtney Prideeaus: Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 37: 1885-1900. Entry: Meredith, William . Retrieved November 11, 2015.
- ↑ RSPB . Retrieved November 11, 2015.
- ↑ Sir Vincent was the son of Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti , founder of the electrical company Ferranti .
- ↑ The converted stables are listed on the National Heritage List of England as Grade II Historic Buildings.
- ^ Henbury Hall . National Heritage List of England. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
- ↑ a b c Henbury Rotunda, Cheshire . Julian Bicknell Associates. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
- ^ Henbury Hall . Royal Institute of British Architects. Archived from the original on March 22, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
Coordinates: 53 ° 15 ′ 11.4 " N , 2 ° 11 ′ 50.6" W.