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Seen from the amphitheatre. Designed by Batty Langley, 1735, but incorporating an earlier building. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1158672

Looking N from the amphitheatre, with the Bowling Green house on the left and the orangery in the distance.

From S. Designed by Edward Stevens in 1769-70 for Jemima Marchioness Grey, to evoke a semi-ruined classical building with rustic repairs, such as the thatched roof. Perhaps altered between 1813 and 1830, according to the English Heritage guidebook. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1113790 .

Looking out of the bath house towards the primitive bridge that carries the approach path over a natural spring. The bath house was designed by Edward Stevens in 1769-70 for Jemima Marchioness Grey, to evoke a semi-ruined classical building with rustic repairs. Perhaps altered between 1813 and 1830, according to the English Heritage guidebook. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1113790 .

Looking through the building from the SE; the plunge pool is in the nearer section. Designed by Edward Stevens in 1769-70 for Jemima Marchioness Grey, to evoke a semi-ruined classical building with rustic repairs. Perhaps altered between 1813 and 1830, according to the English Heritage guidebook. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1113790 .

Designed by Edward Stevens in 1769-70 for Jemima Marchioness Grey, to evoke a semi-ruined classical building with rustic repairs, such as the thatched roof. Perhaps altered between 1813 and 1830, according to the English Heritage guidebook. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1113790 . The composition is best appreciated from this angle although, when I was there, this was the worst possible angle in relation to the direction of the sun!

Fireplace of c.1600 from the old house; transferred to the steward's room in the service wing of the C19 house and then moved to the orangery by the Ministry of Works in the mid C20.

Barnes House and the Nook, Church Street, seen from the churchyard. Listing descriptions: www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-53381-barnes-house-sa... ; www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-53382-the-nook-saint-...

Inn sign on wrought iron bracket in Wellington Street. The listing description dates the building to the early eighteenth century but offers no date for the bracket.

View from SSE. Begun in 1773 to designs of Robert Adam; for further history, see set page . 19th-century wing on the right; according to the original drawings, the E. front initially had a two-storey bow to match the one just visible on the W. front.

N. front. Begun in 1773 to designs of Robert Adam; for further history, see set page . 19th-century wing on left; the Venetian window lights the staircase. Originally the stairs were behind the left-hand window in the main block, and the original drawings show the E. front with a two-storey bow to match the one on the West (just visible on the right of this shot). The porch and the windows flanking it must be 19th-century alterations. Much of the original exterior "trim" is wooden, including the pilasters (according to the listing description ); note the condition of the cornice above the central window on the first floor.

W. front. Begun in 1773 to designs of Robert Adam; for further history, see set page . This front originally had a view to the town, and the main rooms were concentrated on this side. On the ground floor an eating room extended the full width of the front (with the N and S ends screened by columns); this survives as the school chapel. The first floor room seems to have been the original drawing room, with apsed ends N and S in the original drawings, although these do not survive. According to the original plans, the E. front originally had a similar bow for symmetry but it was used to form closets, rather than being expressed internally.

S. front. Begun in 1773 to designs of Robert Adam; for further history, see set page . The left-hand Venetian window lights the eating room; the central door opens into an ante-room (and was at one stage covered by a conservatory whose ghost is still visible); the room behind the right-hand Venetian window also has good original plasterwork and what is said to be an original bookcase (see links to photos from c.1890 in comment below).

Taken for comparison with a 1966 view formerly on Flickr but now online here . Not shown on the 1886 OS 1:2500 map but shown in 1902-3 where it appears to be a pair of houses without the single storey section on the right; however comments on the 1966 photo when it was on Flickr indicated that it became a single house between the wars, belonging (if memory serves) to the earl of Sefton. Now part of a sheltered housing complex.

Detail of window showing cast iron gothic tracery, enlarged from www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/6019260190/in/set-7215... .

You wait years for a guided bus and then two come along at once - something of an exaggeration, but this bus appeared two minutes after the one seen in www.flickr.com/photos/40878011@N07/6019257432/in/set-7215... . Seen from the road bridge SE of Over on opening day; probably a relief bus to cope with the opening day crowds.