Hewell Grange

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Hewell Grange

Hewell Grange is a country house in the village Tardebigge in the English county Worcestershire . The house was designed by George Frederic Bodley and Thomas Garner and built for the Earl of Plymouth between 1884 and 1891 . The architectural historians Brooks and Pevsner described it as "one of the most important country houses from the end of the 19th century in England". The Jacobean style house was "probably the last Victorian Prodigy House ". English Heritage has it as a historical building II *. Grade listed. The park was designed by Capability Brown and Humphry Repton . It was included in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The lake is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

Origins of the property

The land was originally part of the Bordesley Abbey estate . When the English monasteries were dissolved , it fell to Thomas Windsor Hickman .

Development of the property

The property remained the seat of the Windsor-Clive family (who became Earls of Plymouth ) until it was sold to the British state in the 20th century. There are several ruins of earlier houses on the property, as well as a large number of listed historical buildings, other structures and statues.

Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth , (1857-1923) commissioned Bodley and Garner with the construction of the present house, which was built in the years 1894-1891.

The ruin of Old Grange , which was built by Thomas Cundy .

The House

The house is made of red sandstone from Cheshire built and has a shingled roof. It has an Elizabethan , E-shaped floor plan modeled after Montacute House in Somerset . The exterior of the three-story house is in Jacobean style, the interior in Italianate style. The massive great hall dominates Hewell Grange; it takes up half of the interior. Most of the refined decoration is “well preserved”. The chapel in the vestibule contains stone carvings by Detmar Blow .

jail

The house served as a correctional facility from 1946 to 1991, when it became HM Prison Hewell Grange , a royal open prison .

Lodges

At the former north-west entrance to the property on the B 4096 there are two lodges that are classified as historical buildings of the 2nd degree. They date from the 1830s. Thomas Cundy designed it in the classical style with Doric columns. Today they are private houses with no connection to the prison.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alan Brooks, Nikolaus Pevsner: Worcestershire . Yale University Press. S. 625. 2007. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Hewell Grange . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  3. ^ A b Alan Brooks, Nikolaus Pevsner: Worcestershire . Yale University Press. P. 626. 2007. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  4. ^ Good Stuff IT Services: Search: + Hewell + Grange . British Listed Buildings. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  5. ^ A b Good Stuff IT Services: Hewell Grange - Tutnall And Cobley - Worcestershire - England . British Listed Buildings. August 15, 1903. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  6. ^ A b Alan Brooks, Nikolaus Pevsner: Worcestershire . Yale University Press. S. 627. 2007. Accessed June 24, 2016.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 19 '17 "  N , 1 ° 59' 35.2"  W.