Bletchley Park House - Mansion : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Bletchley Park House - Mansion / ell brown
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| 説明 | This is the mansion at Bletchley Park. Also known as Bletchley Park Mansion.It is Grade II listed.Large house, now offices. 1860 altered and extended 1883-6 and c1906for HS Leon. Red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings; principalgables half-timbered with pebble-dashed infill, some others tile-hung;Welsh slate roof with red tile ridge; brick stacks, with clusteredflues, ribs and bands. Transomed wooden windows, principal windows withleaded upper lights. Decorative wooden barge boards and finials togables. Large rambling house, of 2 storeys with partial attic.Entrance elevation: 6 bays. Lavish ashlar detailing includingarchitraves. Entrance in bay 2 has internal, vaulted, porch protectingpanelled half-glazed double-door with side lights, traceried upper partand fanlight the latter leaded and with coloured glass. Flanking porchare hexagonal brick columns surmounted by panelled stone tops whichflank base of 4-light oriel window with decorative base. Projectingfrom porch, and attached to it are 2 seated griffins on bracketedplinths. Shaped pediment with elaborate finial. Gabled bay 1 hasprojecting 2-storey canted bay with pretted eaves band and cornice belowswept, domed, metal roof. On its left is single-storey woodenconservatory with traceried bays, formerly an open-sided loggia.Paired, gabled, bays 2 and 3 have ashlar framed triple window to groundfloor with gableted butresses,and two canted bay windows over. Acrossbay 4 is 3 bay embattled ashlar loggia fronting elaborate - panelleddouble-door with canted bay window to right; inserted 1st floor window.Bay 6 has polygonal 2-storey bay window with shaped pediments screeningfinialed polygonal roof. Right return: 3 left-hand bays in same styleas front, the rest plainer; but attached to right end is dovecote-likestructure: octagonal, of 2 stages, having plinth; inserted ground-floorwindows; ashlar upper stage with 2-light windows below string; and plaintile roof with gablets and finial. Rear: plainer having tradesmen'sentrance; complex roofline, one roof having louvre with finialed leadcupola; and embattled tower with blue-brick decorative work and date(former steep hipped roof removed). Left return: in style of front,with ashlar canted and curved bay windows; paired, gabled, bays 2 and 3decorative half-timbered 1st floor; shaped pediment to bay 4; and formerloggia (much altered) across right-hand bays. Interior: high quality,elaborate, interiors survive, with panelling, panelled doors, decorativefireplaces, and decorative plaster ceilings. Entrance vestibule: stonecolumns and vaults. Entrance Hall: arcaded polished-stone screen walland panelled area beyond with elaborate 2-stage, columned, ashlarfireplace surround and traceried panelling and painted glass to roof.Room at right end: Jacobethan fireplace; coffered ceiling with floral-decorated plaster panels. Stairhall: panelled; ground-floor arcade anddeep floral frieze; decorative coved, coffered, ceiling over stair;fretted balustrade with carved surround and carved octagonal newels tostair panelled stair well. Library : elaborate wooden jacobethaninglenook with overmirror; fitted book cases and shelves; fluted frieze;compartmental ceiling with decorative plaster panels. Ballroom :linenfold panelling; wall recess flanked by clustered wooden columnsfrom which spring traceried arches; elaborate plaster work to frieze andto coved, ribbed, ceiling which has pendant finials. Billiard room:brattished panelling and cornice; columns support ceiling ribs; woodentrusses. Additional fireplaces, panelling, and decorative doors,plasterwork and cornices to 1st floor.Bletchley Park House was the headquarters building of World War IIoperational centre, in the grounds of which was the hut in which thevital cracking of the Nazis' Enigma Code occurred. Churchill was one ofthe important visitors to the house.Bletchley Park House - Heritage Gateway |
| 撮影日 | 2010-10-22 12:58:09 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.01 sec (1/100) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.0 |