Crowe Hall

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Crowe Hall
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A view of Widcombe with Crowe Hall in the centre
Coordinates 51°22′27″N2°20′47″W / 51.37417°N 2.34639°W / 51.37417; -2.34639
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameCrowe Hall
Designated5 August 1975 [1]
Reference no.1395762
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameWall of Crowe Hall
Designated15 October 2010 [2]
Reference no.1394685
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameGates and Gate Piers to Crowe Hall
Designated5 August 1975 [3]
Reference no.1395763
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameCoach house to Crowe Hall
Designated5 August 1975 [4]
Reference no.1395764
Official nameCrowe Hall
TypeGrade II
Designated8 August 1991 [5]
Reference no.1000548
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Location of Crowe Hall in Somerset

Crowe Hall is a Georgian house in Widcombe, Bath , Somerset, England. It is a Grade II listed building, [1] and the gardens are on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. [5]

Contents

The house was built around 1760 for a Brigadier Crowe. It has since had a succession of owners who each adapted and renovated the building and grounds. A serious fire in 1926 destroyed much of the fabric and further restoration was required.

The house is surrounded by several hectares of sloping terraced gardens, below Prior Park, which include a rock garden and grotto.

History

The fabric of the current house dates from around 1760 on the site of an earlier building of 1742. A late 18th century sketch by Thomas Robins which is held at the Courtauld Institute of Art shows the house surrounded by informal parkland, in the style of the period. The front of the house was rebuilt in the early 19th century. [6]

The house was built by Brigadier Crowe. From 1805 until 1919 it was owned by the Tugwell family. [1] George Hayward Tugwell, the mayor of Bath, reconstructed the house and laid out the basic framework for a formal terraced garden in around 1810. [7] During the 1870s the house was again remodelled, this time by Henry Tugwell. In 1874, Henry Tugwell appointed William Carmichael (c 1816–1904) as head gardener and he undertook a series alterations to the gardens. Carmichael was trained at the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, and had been head gardener at Sandringham House, Norfolk in the 1860s.

In 1919 the Tugwell family sold the house and it was purchased by Major Maconochie who made profit from supplying tinned food as food rations for British soldiers in the field during the Boer War [8] and in front-line trenches during World War I. [9] It changed hands several times afterwards, before being purchased by Sir Sydney Barratt in 1960, who further developed the garden. In 2010 the house was sold at auction by the Barratt family, with the contents including furniture, books and glassware being auctioned separately. [9] [10]

In 2019 Crowe Hall was used as a filming location for the 2020 ITV police detective series MacDonald and Dodds. [11]

Architecture

The two-storey building, with a basement, has hipped roofs and a porte-cochère. The entrance has four ionic columns. [1]

The west end of the house is an orangery built in the 1880s. [12]

The former coach house is a single-story building with a central elliptical oculus above a pair of arched openings. [4]

The interior was restructured after a major fire in 1926, [1] which completely destroyed the conservatory and much of the back of the house. [9] The work by the architect A. Blomfield Jackson maintained the neo-Georgian appearance. [7]

Gardens

The gardens are Grade II registered on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. [5] They are laid out in terraces because the 3 hectares (7.4 acres) is over a hillside below Prior Park and giving views over St Thomas à Becket Church and the south of Bath. [13]

The rock garden to the east of the front of the house was laid out in the 19th century by William Carmichael. A statue of Neptune was added later. [5] The Tugwells planted Yew trees and laid out paths as well as constructing large retaining walls. [14] Below the south terrace is a tufa and limestone built grotto which may date from the building of Prior Park in 1742. [15]

The wall surrounding the groups and fronting onto both Church Street and Church Lane is 80 metres (260 ft) long and 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high is also a listed building, [2] along with the gates and gate piers. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Historic England. "Crowe Hall (1395762)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  2. 1 2 Historic England. "Wall of Crowe Hall (1394685)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  3. 1 2 Historic England. "Gates and Gate Piers to Crowe Hall (1395763)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  4. 1 2 Historic England. "Coach house to Crowe Hall (1395764)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Historic England. "Crowe Hall (1000548)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  6. ↑ name=nhlecrowehall
  7. 1 2 Robinson, John Martin (2011). "Crowe Hall, Bath: Heritage Impact Assessment" (PDF). Bath and North East Somerset Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  8. ↑ Maurice Harold Grant, History of the war in South Africa, 1899-1902., Vol.4. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1910. pg. 567.
  9. 1 2 3 Edwards, Adam (12 March 2010). "Property in Somerset: Crowe Hall for sale". Telegraph. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  10. ↑ "More Crowe Hall treasures go under the hammer". Bath Chronicle. 18 August 2010. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  11. ↑ "Where is ITV detective drama McDonald and Dodds filmed?".
  12. ↑ "Crowe Hall History". Parks and Gardens UK. Parks and Gardens Data Services Ltd. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  13. ↑ "Crowe Hall Description". Parks and Gardens UK. Parks and Gardens Data Services Ltd. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  14. ↑ Plumptree, George (1985). Collins Book of British Gardens . London: Collins. pp.  270–271. ISBN   0002166410.
  15. ↑ Historic England. "Grotto below south terrace at Crowe Hall (1405720)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 April 2015.
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