Unfortunately The Vyne was covered in scaffolding when we visited. This was due to damage inflicted on the property due to severe weather earlier in the year. Parts of the property were leaking and in need of repair. The Vyne with its rich history is surrounded by gardens and woodland.
The Vyne is a warm red-bricked Tudor mansion built in the 16th century for Lord Sandys, Henry VIII’s Lord Chamberlain, which later passed into the hands of the Chute family, who cared for the house and estate for over 300 years. It was remodelled to its present configuration in the mid-17th century with the addition of a classical portico and summerhouse, firsts of their kind in England.
Visitors will encounter 500 year-old Majolica tiles, Renaissance stained glass, and exquisite wood carvings in the Tudor chapel and period linen-fold panelling in the oak gallery. The house holds treasures collected by the Chute family, including furniture, tapestries and paintings, Murano glass and silk wall hangings. Stroll through rooms once enjoyed by notable guests like Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Horace Walpole, and Jane Austen.
The house is set in 13 acres of beautiful, relaxing gardens. Styles range from the formal summerhouse and stone gallery gardens with fine herbaceous borders, to the more natural wild garden and fruit trees of the orchard and walled garden. Nestled in the Hampshire countryside, The Vyne Estate also features acres of woodland with trails that pass by ancient trees, a medieval fishpond and the park pale. The wetlands attract an abundance of bird life. The rolling parkland grazed by cattle perfects the lakeside setting.
The scaffolding didn’t take anything away from your first image Cherie…
i like the domed gazebo tucked in the corner of the garden… the Vyne sounds like a wonderful place to stroll about….peter:)
I think the deckchairs in the foreground distracted the eye from the scaffolding.
The summerhouse in the garden is rather appealing
All this for a Lord Chamberlain! Fit for the king himself, I’d think?!
You should see the scaled model of how big the building complex was originally!!!
This is quite small in comparison.
That’s really well maintained! Who owns it now, National Trust?
How much does it cost to get into view a place such as this, Cherie?
Thanks for showing us !
The Tag says National Trust
I am not sure how much it costs to enter… I am a member of National Trust and English Heritage so I can enter all of the sites without paying on the day.
I am glad you enjoyed seeing The Vyne
My word! You are a long way from home. Your home that is, for the Vyne is almost on my doorstep.
No not really, but is one of my ‘local’ NT houses. I remember visiting many years ago and very much liked the decor in Jane Austin’s bedroom. I have no idea if it is still the same, but the wall colour was described as ‘Calamine’, a lovely powdery pink, as in the calamine lotion that my Mother used to dab on bee stings and sunburn! I found out that you could buy these NT coloured paints and so I bought a couple of tins.
My little organ is finished in this colour and is much commented on.
Memories of the Vyne and Jane Austin’s bedroom! (naughty me.)
For a minute I thought you had moved house
They have moved things around in the house so I am not sure which one was Jayne Austins bedroom. However I like the sound of the colour that you describe
It is lovely to hear from you
I found out about the details of Jayne’s room, not from the house itself, but from an article in the NT Quarterly journal. It would have been six or seven years ago. I don’t know if they keep back copies on their website, but I shall investigate.
All the best
Bernard.
Just contacted the NT and they tell me that they don’t archive their Magazines or any articles from them! I said to them that it was a shame that so many interesting documents should just be scrapped.
Their reply was – sorry but we are a charity!
What I did like though, so they are not completely against new technology, was that they have an ‘on-line e-mail type’ of chat line where you could ’speak’ interactively with someone. — “Hi, I’m Katie, how can I help you?” sort of thing.
Might be useful if you have any queries?
The fact that they do not keep historic documents is a tragedy. So much information lost…
Thanks for the tip on how to interact with them if I need to
It’s quite novel seeing the deck chairs by the lake.
I had not seen anything like that before!