Packwood House is very close to Baddesley Clinton which I recently blogged about.  You can see from the exterior that it is completely different in mood and style.  A description from the guidebook:

at Packwood the compact house, relatively undistinguished externally, is a1920s and ’30s recasting of a much altered late 16th-century timber-framed building.  It is set off by subsidiary buildings and garden walls in richly coloured brickwork of the 17th century, some of it moulded and architecturally enriched.  Furthermore, its setting is public and accessible, the handsome outbuildings putting on a smart face either side of the road in the way fashionable until the early 18th century.  Discovering it suddenly, after a bend in one of the many narrow, erratic lanes characteristic of this unspoilt part of Warwickshire, is an experience never forgotten: one is intrigued and impressed as a traveller three centuries ago would have been.  Most fascinating of all are the tantalising glimpses of the yew garden which presents its flank to the public road.

I shall talk about the yew garden some more in another post.

Packwood House

Packwood House

Packwood House

4 Comments CherryPie on May 17th 2011

4 Responses to “Packwood House”

  1. Good lord, that sundial is enormous!
    Bet you can tell the time miles away?

  2. Ginnie says:

    LC is right about that sundial! :) I bet you could spend a lifetime wandering around all such houses like this all over England, Cherie!