Friday, December 7, 2012

Wimpole Hall

This weekend I had the pleasure of visiting Wimpole Estate which was all decked out for Christmas.  Construction begun on the house in 1640 and saw a multitude of architects in the eighteenth century include John Soane.  The end result is a really big Georgian mansion just outside of Cambridge.












The last picture I took from the garden and as I found out later the tower is called Wimpole's Folly.  Thanks to craze for the gothic, Lord Hardwicke (the owner at the time) had ruins of what looked to be an old medieval castle built on the estate, because as we all know, there aren't enough old (actual) ruins just hanging about England! 

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5 comments:

  1. Retro BlogDecember 10, 2012 at 8:45 AM

    Wonderful, Loved the bells in the kitchen.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 12, 2012 at 11:03 AM

    A folly was prominently featured in an episode of "Inspector Lewis."

    No wonder they were named such!

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