Nottingham - NG5 (Bestwood)
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Nottingham - NG5 (Bestwood)
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 16 May 2012
The front elevation of the former Bestwood Lodge bathed in afternoon sunshine in mid-May. This is now a country hotel in Bestwood Country Park. It was the 10th Duke of St Albans who engaged Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812-1873) to design this replacement lodge between 1862-65. He was of French descent, his family having settled in Greenwich and he had a very distinguished clientele, including royalty. He has been described as a prolific architect favouring a "vigorous and idiosyncratic Gothic style" with his country houses incorporating gables aplenty, asymmetrically arranged towers and patterned façades.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.01288
Longitude
-1.153208