Tyntesfield House, Bristol

[blur_kiwi]

A couple of weeks ago, while my Dutch friends were visiting, we went to Tyntesfield house, near Bristol. I went there a few years ago, in September 2009 in fact - I've just checked. It's a National Trust property and is still in the process of being done up. It's actually been a bit of a public project for the National Trust. Normally they would

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[moldy_blues]

amazing!
It bothers me sometimes when they renovate old historic landmarks and remove everything that made it wonderful. I hope they don't modernise it and ruin its beauty.

those greenhouses and arched windows are so lovely!

[blur_kiwi]

Thank you. :))

This house isn't as old as it might look, it's Victorian, so still pretty old. And it was lived in until fairly recently, so each room is being decorated and furnished as it would have been at a specific time in the house's life, but each from a different time (if you see what I mean.) My friends said that there is a little kitchen that even has a microwave and a telly in it, because that's what was there when the National Trust took it over - and I think that's fair enough.

I loved the greenhouses, and the whole kitchen garden area.

[meathiel]

Beautiful ...

Is that a chapel or part of the house?

[blur_kiwi]

Thanks. It's a chapel attached to the side of the house. (So, both, really!) :))

[gaia_child]

ohhh some of them, if not all, are truly magical! spring always comes early in England, I envy you! :) Here we've had a spell of nice weather - 3 days of gorgeous sunshine but they say winter is going to be back, with its cold and rain....:( One always waits for the spring time so much! I've already seen the buds on some trees, yay! NOTHING will stop this process now, I say jokingly to Marcin:)

Anyway, talking about the pics... I can't believe you were disappointed...that little house looks as if taken straight from a fairytale; the tree alley looks magnificent; the third landscape looks almost avalonian and I love the gate below tree alley. Those large vases (are they vases?) remind me of one place you showed me... I think there were similar ones in Killerton?

[blur_kiwi]

*Waves