3-082-064 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

English Homes, No. XXXVII: Eastwell Park, 1895. 'A corner of the Lake; the House, back view...one fronts the house, a big place a century old. It succeeded a "stupendious fabrick which obliged the eye to admiration," if we may believe Thomas Philipott; and this was built in 1546 by Sir Thomas Moile, Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations to Henry VIII. This elder Eastwell Place would seem to have been a magnificent affair; the new one is very plain, and was built under the direction of Bonomi, often spoken of in novels of his time as the great builder of English houses in the Greek fashion...A tall, round turret to the right of the portico marks, however, a join in the building; and the long right wing, plainly not of the Bonomi date, is greyer, and somehow rather richer in effect, than the main entrance and its surroundings...The roof-line of the whole house is varied, and, to the unprofessional eye, pleasant enough, with its high square chimneys, its gable-end and turrets'. Eastwell Park, near Ashford in Kent, in England, was owned by the Earls of Winchilsea for more than three centuries. It was used as a royal residence from 1874 to 1893 for Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.