Lincolnshire Country Houses. Sir William Earle Welby-Gregory...

Hammer

£40

Lincolnshire Country Houses. Sir William Earle Welby-Gregory, 4th Baronet, DL (1829-1898), his account of the rebuilding of Denton Hall, dated 1879, [8]ff of manuscript only, all to recto, with later parallel pencil additions by a descendant, one reasons he notes for replacing the Stuart Denton Hall with a completely new structure, to the designs of Sir Arthur Blomfield, is that his father become owner of all the "the movable contents of Harlaxton Manor House" and thus needed to enlarge his own country house, which was to built be in the character of the Old Hall, Harlaxton, the descendant concludes that "Sir William used his wife's money [Victoria, Lady Welby-Gregory (née Stuart-Wortley (1837-1912)] to tae down the fine old Stuart Hall which certainly was not ugly, and to build a Victorian eyesore of a house", contemporary calf over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, folio (33 x 22cm); Messrs. Jackson Stops & Staff:~ Harlaxton Manor Estate, Near Grantham, Illustrated Particulars and Conditions of Sale. The Above Attractive Sporting Estate [...] together with The Picturesque Village of Harlaxton, To be offered by Auction (unless previously sold by private treaty in 100 Lots, 28th September, 1937, complete with 10 tipped-in b/w photograph illustrations, 2 folding lithographed and coloured estate plans/maps loosely-inserted, original wrappers, folio (32 x 23cm), (2)