Time for another little quiz?

[Penners]

Where's this? Get your answer in quickly, before Gareth spots it.

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Your new abode? :roll:

 

[jocelyn plummer]

oooopppps, I mean the house, not the area around it---

I'd like to hazard a guess as to the county---could it be Suffolk?

 

[FamilyWiggs]

No idea where it is, but I think it would have been cold - remarably few chimneys it seems for something so large?

 

[Me!]

Hmmmm, somewhere in the depths of long disused memory cells I think I've seen that before, but I can't remember where!
Little Easton? Monks Eleigh?

 

[Moo]

No. Joss is right.
If you remember, Penners said that the picture of his new house showed the back view, and it had growed like topsy. Fits this house perfectly.

 

[Flyfisher]

How about Hadleigh Guildhall?

 

[worms]

Why does it open directly onto the graveyard? Is this not pretty unusual? Would it not have been more normal to have some sort of wall to a) keep animals out b) delineate consecrated ground. But it doesn't look as if there ever was enough space for any sort of barrier.

 

[Cloudscape]

Is this too easy? It's not one for the purists, but I wouldn't say no to some of the carvings...

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Can't see Penners beeswaxing all that woodwork!

Looks like a lovely part of the world though, must explore further.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Is this too easy? It's not one for the purists, but I wouldn't say no to some of the carvings...

I'm guessing, partly from your location, but is it associated with the Regency forerunners of Hinge and Bracket?

 

[Cloudscape]

The crossdressing was in the other direction, I would imagine. :wink:

 

[Cloudscape]

Nice house though. Very... oaky.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Who were the Regency forerunners of Hinge and Bracket?

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Who were the Regency forerunners of Hinge and Bracket?

well, no-one's actually come out and identified the building yet - that might help (I'm not going to because I think it's someone else's turn, really), but here they are:

 

[philpjuk100]

Im not sure what its called but you can see it from the A5 going into Llangollen! phil.

 

[philpjuk100]

Plas Newydd ?

 

[Cloudscape]

Indeed - home of The Ladies of Llangollen. Well done.

Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby were two aristocratic women of Anglo-Irish descent who scandalised contemporary society by leaving Ireland against the wishes of their families and setting up home together in Plas Newydd in Llangollen.
The ladies had tried to leave Ireland before but had been prevented by their families, who disapproved of their desire for independence. However their second attempt was successful and they made their way to Wales, where a servant, Mary Caryll, later joined them.

Once they had decided to make Plas Newydd their home the ladies set about transforming it, adding many Gothic features including oak carvings in the interior of the house. Their fame spread as their romantic friendship became known far and wide.

As well as working on their house and garden, the ladies spent their time in reading, studying foreign languages and corresponding with a wide variety of people. Many of these were well-known figures of the day and they often came to visit the ladies, among them Wordsworth and the Duke of Wellington. Some of their guests brought the ladies gifts in the form of oak carvings which were added to the house.

 

[philpjuk100]

OK my turn!
where is this, and who is this lady who lived there?

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Is it Helen Allingham?