3-078-186 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

English Homes - No. XXIV. Audley End: the stables, 1890. 'It is beautiful here in summer, when the great chestnuts that stand about the park and the elms that make avenues of the country roads are clad in green. Audley End is famous for its trees: here the flats of Essex are broken up with little hills and dales, and dark tree-lines edge the summits, and make a warm setting for the stately house, and the brown ancient village, and the neighbour-town of Saffron Walden...Away to the left there stretch to the riverside the ancient stables - once the hostel of a bygone monastery - with their red roofs and dormer windows, and walls of a dull reddish-drab, partly overgrown with creepers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.