The glasshouses are Victorian, one contains two surviving Black Hamburg vines and the others are used to store house-plants and more tender bedding plants.
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Baddesley Clinton – Glasshouses
4 Comments CherryPie on May 10th 2011
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Baddesley Clinton – The Stables
The guidebook provides the following information:
the old stable block, which is listed in Edward Ferrers’s ‘Account of what I have built and altered in and about Baddesley house’ as costing £76 17s 7d in 1714. Some of the arched entrances were bricked up to allow the interior to be fitted out with Victorian loose-boxes.
The [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on May 9th 2011
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Baddesley Clinton – The Sacristy
During the nineteenth century a priest would have used the space in front of this icon to robe and prepare before saying mass in the chapel which is situated next door to the sacristy.
This part of the room also housed a garde-robe (in the place of the current trap-door). This became the escape route [...]
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Baddesley Clinton – From the Inside
6 Comments CherryPie on May 4th 2011
