Martin Easdown's Lost Country Houses of Kent PDF

By Martin Easdown

ISBN-10: 1445674343

ISBN-13: 9781445674346

state homes have been the showpieces of the nation’s elite and Kent can nonetheless boast many of the best examples, with Leeds fort, Chevening, Cobham corridor, Knole, Penshurst position, Mereworth and Broome Park to call yet a number of. unfortunately, the county has additionally witnessed the demolition of a number of of its grander homes as a result of adjustments in social behavior and the decline and amalgamation of serious estates, let alone fireplace, dry rot and loss of life tasks. Estates of recent homes now hide the location of the various misplaced homes, whereas the is still of foundations, surviving front resorts and different outbuildings, and some backyard positive aspects are available if sought for. it's evocative to imagine that what was such an impressive development, the centre and social hub of the realm, is now quite a few scanty is still in a field.

This is the 1st booklet to add the misplaced state homes of the ‘Garden of britain’ and Martin Easdown presents us with a hundred and twenty examples of the grandest mansions that experience disappeared, indexed in gazetteer shape with illustrations. He additionally presents us with a couple of examples, similar to Oxney court docket, the place the home has come again to lifestyles after years of dereliction.

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