Stanage Park

Stanage Park is a Grade II* listed Welsh country house set in a large park located some 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Knighton, Powys near the settlement of Heartsease. The extensive parkland and the house were laid out by Humphry Repton and his son, John Adey Repton, in the early nineteenth century. Repton's picturesque parkland improvements, castellated house and enclosed garden survive almost intact. The estate is the last and most complete of his three recognized Welsh landscape commissions.[1]

Stanage Park
TypeHouse
LocationKnighton, Powys
Coordinates52.3396°N 2.9808°W / 52.3396; -2.9808
Built1803-1807
ArchitectHumphry Repton
Architectural style(s)Gothic Revival
Governing bodyPrivately owned
Official nameStanage Park
Designated30 September 1985
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameStanage Park
Designated30 September 1985
Reference no.9045
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameStable courtyard at Stanage Park
Designated30 September 1985
Reference no.9049
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameOuter gateway, walls and outbuilding at stable courtyard to Stanage Park
Designated30 September 1985
Reference no.9047
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameFormer game larder to south-west of stable courtyard at Stanage Park
Designated30 September 1985
Reference no.9050
Location of Stanage Park in Powys

History

The house was built 1803–07 by the Reptons for Charles Rogers in a picturesque castle style that was explicitly modelled on Richard Payne Knight's Downton Castle. John Repton designed an addition to the rear of the house in 1822. John Hiram Haycock added bay windows and his son Edward Haycock Senior remodelled some of the public rooms in a Tudorbethan style in 1833. Edward Haycock later added a Gothic dining-room extension, Romanesque-style porch and the castellated stable courtyard beginning in 1845. The billiard-room, south wing and baronial tower were added about 1867 [2] The plans for the Repton's work are recorded in a 'Red Book', still kept at the house.[1]

The Dining-room at Stanage, c.1900s

Description

The house is approached through the terraced lawns on the east front and the building has landscaped woodlands with a pond to the west. North and south of the building are wooded hillsides. The eastern terraces are enclosed by a low castellated wall to ha-has and there is a 1900 summer-house at the southeastern corner of the walls. The walls are periodically interrupted with rectangular exedras with classical urns atop piers.[2]

Associations

References
  1. "York University". Archived from the original on 29 January 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  2. "Stanage Park". www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  3. "IMDB". Retrieved 23 January 2008.
  4. "Vortigern Studies". Retrieved 23 January 2008.
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