This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...cottages with their mullioned windows and roofs of Colley Weston slate are sufficient evidence of a determination to preserve the best architectural traditions of the countryside. It may be said at once that the author of these and of all the other modern improvements in Apethorpe is Major Leonard ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...cottages with their mullioned windows and roofs of Colley Weston slate are sufficient evidence of a determination to preserve the best architectural traditions of the countryside. It may be said at once that the author of these and of all the other modern improvements in Apethorpe is Major Leonard Brassey, who purchased the estate from the Earl of Westmorland in 1904. A sharp turn to the right at the bottom of the village street brings us to the gates of the Hall. On our left is the church and on our right the fine old house built as a residence for the estate agent by the sixth earl (d. 1736), and still used for the same purpose. Apethorpe Hall, for three hundred years the home of the Fanes, is one of the most interesting as well as the most beautiful houses in Northamptonshire. It stands in the valley of the Willow Brook amid wide stretches of forest, park, and meadow, over which the visitor with time at his disposal may wander for days. The house itself has received some judicious improvements at the hands of its new owner, but the lines of one who knew and loved it well1 have not for that ceased to express for all time the feelings it inspires: The moss-grey mansion of my father stands Parked in an English pasturage as fair As any that the grass-green isle can show. Above it rise deep-wooded lawns; below A brook runs riot through the pleasant lands, And blabs its secrets to the merry air. The village peeps from out deep poplars where A grey bridge spans the stream; and all beyond In sloping vales and sweet acclivities The many-dimpled, laughing landscape lies. 1 Julian Fane (1827-1870), a younger son of the eleventh earl. Four-sqsare and double-courted and grey-stoned Two quaint quadrangles of deep-latticed walls Grass-grown, and...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 950grams, ISBN:
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