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Vintage-Views Antique Prints and Maps :: Vintage Prints :: Vintage Prints of Surrey Views, England :: BAYNARDS PARK AND HOUSE - FROM THE GARDEN, 1914 VINTAGE COLOUR LITHOGRAPH

BAYNARDS PARK AND HOUSE - FROM THE GARDEN, 1914 VINTAGE COLOUR LITHOGRAPH

Approximate Overall Size With Margins: 10.75 X 8.25 inches

BAYNARDS - The great enclosure of Baynards Park extends from Vachery southwards almost to the county boundary near Rudgewick. The house is comparatively little known, but, to my mind, it is the finest of all the great old houses of Surrey. The unfamiliarity arises, no doubt, to some extent from the situation it occupies near the centre of a great park and surrounded by woods, so that no glimpse of it is visible from the outside world from any point nearer than Coneyhurst Hill, three and a half miles away. A great deal ofwork in restoration had been done before the estate was bought from his descendant, Thomas Thurlow by the present owner, Thomas J. Waller, Esq., to whom 1 am indebted for much information about the house and the work which has been done there since. The house is built of faded red brick, chequered and banded in some places by bricks of greyish blue. These different colours have been obtained by some variation in the firing, as all the bricks are of the same clay and texture they are of the small size which we associate with Flemish work but were made on the spot. The pit from which the clay was obtained is now converted into an ornamental pond on the east side of the gardens. The quoins, mullions and dressings have been originally of chalk, but in places where this has weathered they have been replaced by yellow sandstone ; and portions of the walls have been refaced. obliterating the chequer work. The roofs are still covered with the original Horsham slates, moss-grown and beautiful in colour. The most extraordinary external feature is the multitude of chimneys singly and in stacks, indicating an abundance of fuel and a love of comfort not always visible in ancient houses. The construction of these tall stacks of chimneys shows that the architect had a very good knowledge of wind pressure. Each individual chimney is square, but from the base the shaft is. turned forty-five degrees, providing a series of right angles With an open space between each, to face the wind instead of a dead wall space, or a wall with a series of vertical slits, the corbelling of the brickwork binds them together at the top, and all the storms of the centuries have not overthrown one of them. Great walled gardens extend to the cast, a terrace bounded by a pierced brick parapet on the south, and on the west a sunk rose garden, with long alleys of ancient yews on two sides a terrace with cedars next the house, and a high wall on the other side, separating the garden from the park this wall has been pierced, and an iron screen inserted, having conventional renderings of the rose and fleur-de-lis as finials for the bars. Three leaden figures beside this wall-two ladies and one gallant in Watteau costumes are by far the daintiest 1 have seen they are probably of French origin. Formerly there was a moat, and two large ponds south from the house , but the moat has entirely disappeared, and the ponds have been filled up and turned into meadows. When Mr. Waller bought the place, the house and situation remained much as described by John Evelyn in 1648 and 1657. 1 went with my cousin, George Tuke, to see Baynards, a house of my brother Richard's, which he would have hired. This is a very fine noble residence . . there is a pond of sixty acres near it. . The situation is excessively dirty and melancholy." The courtyard was surrounded by a high wall, imprisoning the house this was cut down to a dwarf parapet. The brooks north and south from the house were deepened, the ponds filled up, and the ground so thoroughly drained that no trace of damp remains. The owner declares that now it is not only the house with most chimneys, but the most comfortable mansion in Surrey.

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