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 Open Days Every year we open a number of our buildings for Open Days to allow anyone to visit Landmarks and learn about their history and restoration. Admission is free on these days and leaflets are provided detailing the buildings' history. Further 2008 Open Days will be added shortly.
For further information or directions please contact the Booking Office. Please be aware the Booking Office is not open on Sundays.
2008 Open Days
* On the final open day the Landmark will only be open in the morning from 10am to 1pm.
** On the first day the Landmark will only be open in the afternoon from 1pm to 4pm AND on the final open day the Landmark will only be open in the morning from 10am to 1pm.
Please see below for further information.
Alton StationAlton, Staffordshire
Very unfortunately we have had to postpone this Open Day until further notice. A new date will be arranged as soon as possible.
Old
Campden House
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The
house was burnt to the ground in 1645 during the Civil War. The
remaining banqueting houses, lodges and almonry have been restored
and stand within the site that is designated as a Scheduled Ancient
Monument.
Wilmington
Priory, near Eastbourne, dates back to 1215. Alterations have taken
place in almost every century since and the result is a complex
puzzle to unravel; a medieval site with its fine vaulted entrance
porch, stair turrets and mullioned window in the Great Chamber along
with the comfort of the living rooms improved by the Georgians.
This
Elizabethan six-storey tower overlooks the estuary of the River
Orwell. The tower was built in 1578 by an Ipswich merchant called
Thomas Gooding to demonstrate his wealth and status. It may also
have acted as a lookout tower for Gooding’s returning ships and
doubled as a banqueting house, or simply as a folly.
The
Grange was built by Augustus Pugin in 1845 and remained in the family
until 1928. The building reflects Pugin's belief in the Gothic style
as the only true Christian architecture and his ideal to live out
his life in the Middle Ages. It was here Pugin produced some of
his finest work, including designs for the House of Lords.
A
fine example of a 16th century gentry house, it also has good claim
to be the birthplace of the modern Welsh language as it was at Dolbelydr
that Henry Salesbury wrote his Grammatica Britannica - the first
Welsh grammar.
Lord
Harris built this handsome flint tower in the grounds of Belmont
Park in 1808 as his “Whim”. It was used as a banqueting
house and then as a cricket pavilion. Its design is typical of the
Picturesque garden buildings illustrated in the architectural pattern
books of the day, without which no gentleman's property was complete.
Andrea
Palladio built this spectacular villa in around 1550. It is archetypal
of Palladio’s villa designs; a strictly symmetrical plan with
grand portico and generously proportioned rooms. During our long
restoration frescoed friezes were discovered beneath layers of limewash.
Auchinleck
House was built between 1755 and 1760 by Alexander Boswell, 8th
Laird of Auchinleck and the father of James Boswell, the celebrated
diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson. It is one of the finest
examples of an eighteenth century country villa to survive in Scotland.
Anderton
House is an exceptional example of 1970s design. The inspiration
for its profile is taken from the longhouses of Devon and its simple
materials, practicality and open-plan rooms are instantly evocative
of the ‘Seventies’ era. The low-set roof appears to
float cleverly over the spacious living area and its sliding glass
walls give wonderful views of the rolling Devon countryside. It
is furnished with contemporary curtains, furniture, ceramics and
paintings.
This little pavilion is dramatically perched above a steep wooded
gorge, in the remnants of an outstanding mid-eighteenth century
garden at Hackfall, conceived and created by the Aislabies.
This building was once three cottages. Colchester being a centre
of the cloth trade, they probably belonged to weavers, the long
mullioned windows designed to give light to the men at their looms.
Built
in 1746, this Gothic folly is on the Gibside estate, owned by the
National Trust. (Gibside is also open during the Heritage Open Days
weekend). The Banqueting House stands in a grassy clearing, looking
down on an octagonal pool and the valley beyond.
Glenmalloch
Lodge represents the aristocratic philanthropy that characterised
the Victorian Age at its best. It lies in the middle of a wild glen,
framed by wide
Clytha
Castle in Monmouthshire, is a crenellated folly with Gothic windows,
built in 1790, by a bereaved husband as a monument to his wife and
a place of retreat to enjoy the surrounding views. Designed as an
eye-catcher with Picturesque asymmetry, it stands on the summit
of a small hill in a secluded position at the edge of a chestnut
grove. 
This
building is typical of the speculative housing that sprang up in
Spitalfields in the 18th century for French silk weavers (Hugenots)
and wealthy merchants. The building retains much of its ordinal
floor plan and fabric, most notably its simple panelling, partitions
and other joinery.
Morpeth
Castle is situated on a hill overlooking the River Wansbeck and
Northumberland's capital. It was built in 1300, more for show than
defence. Its builder, Lord Greystoke, wanted its presence felt,
because it was to be used as a court-house.
