Clarendon, inside
Sep. 20th, 2008 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithThe National Trust have some photos of the least interesting room drawing room at Clarendon on their website.
The problem with photos of Clarendon is they don't show the scale of the rooms. The way the house is built, the rooms don't look particularly big unless you pace them out and then you discover the central hall is wider than my living room or visit somewhere like Entally and wonder why its rooms are so small.
The photos do show the shutters though, which I think are rather cool (each half folds concertina style into the side of the window) and the doors. If they ever made a Visitor FAQs page, one question would have to be "Why are there two doors into the living room?"
The problem with photos of Clarendon is they don't show the scale of the rooms. The way the house is built, the rooms don't look particularly big unless you pace them out and then you discover the central hall is wider than my living room or visit somewhere like Entally and wonder why its rooms are so small.
The photos do show the shutters though, which I think are rather cool (each half folds concertina style into the side of the window) and the doors. If they ever made a Visitor FAQs page, one question would have to be "Why are there two doors into the living room?"
2 Doors
Date: 2008-10-03 02:49 am (UTC)Re: 2 Doors
Date: 2008-10-03 02:54 am (UTC)Ah, thanks. That's what I said every time the topic came up, but no one took any notice. They preferred it to be in case of fires, or so the servants could come in one way and go out the other.