Rokeby Park
Rokeby Park is a country house near the mouth of Greta in the tea and the village Greta Bridge in the English county of County Durham . Historically, the house was part of the North Riding of Yorkshire administrative unit . The house, built in the Palladian style , is Sir Andrew Morritt's private residence , but is open to the public on selected days.
The house is known as the original English repository of the painting Venus in front of the mirror by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez . The original hangs in the National Gallery in London today and a copy in the Rokeby Park Salon. Sir Walter Scott was a regular guest at the house and chose it as the setting for his epic poem Rokeby from 1812.
But the house itself is also of interest: It was completed for Sir Thomas Robinson in 1735 - then called Rokeby Hall - and is considered a fine example of an Italianate- style house. Robinson remained the owner until 1769 and then sold the property to JS Morritt , an ancestor of the current owner.
Much of the current facility was designed by the architect John Carr . In the house you will find the collection of textile handicraft pictures by Anne Morritt (1726–1797), the unmarried sister of JS Morritt. The rare “printing room”, a room that is papered with prints from the 18th century, has also been preserved to this day.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 31 '19.7 " N , 1 ° 52' 29.4" W.