Prestwold Hall, Prestwold

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Prestwold Hall, Prestwold

Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 7 May 2003

One of the county's larger houses, originally built c1760, but from the outside now all the (uncharacteristically restrained) work of William Burn, 1842, for C.W. Packe. The two facades visible here are faced in Ancaster stone. Grade I listed. The wall in front is also by Burn. Grade II listed. Burn (1789-1870), a pupil of Robert Smirke, established himself in his Scottish homeland before doing the same in England. He was a phenomenally prolific designer of country houses, sought after by the wealthy largely because he was very adroit at planning homes to accommodate the increasing complexity of Victorian country house living - vast numbers of very specialised servants requiring specialist rooms and more segregation of the sexes (e.g. billiard rooms). In his Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, Howard Colvin states that by 1840 Burn "had already designed or altered ninety country houses, besides thirty churches and twenty-five public buildings", and he was to be in practice for almost another thirty years. He was competent across the gamut of architectural styles, but the results were rarely very exciting.

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.787617
Longitude
-1.142907