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Easton Neston is a large
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Easton Neston Easton Neston is situated in south Northamptonshire, England. Though the village of Easton Neston which was inhabited until around 1500 is now gone, the parish retains the name. At the 2011 Census the population of the civil parish remained le ...
near
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in
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, England. It was built by
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(1648–1711), in the
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style to the design of the architect
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. Easton Neston is thought to be the only
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which was solely the work of Hawksmoor. From about 1700, after the completion of Easton Neston, Hawksmoor worked with Sir
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on many buildings, including
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and
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, and often provided technical knowledge to the less qualified Vanbrugh. Hawksmoor's work was always more classically severe than Vanbrugh's. However, Easton Neston predates this partnership by some six years.


Architect

Hawksmoor was commissioned to re-build the old
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at Easton Neston by Sir
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, later created
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, who had inherited the estate from his father
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(1621–1661), who had himself inherited it in 1640 and had been created a baronet the following year by King
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. Hawksmoor had been recommended to Fermor by his cousin by marriage Sir
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, who in about 1680 had advised on the building of a new mansion on the site. No details of what Wren envisaged survive, and work seems to have ceased following completion of the two service blocks, of which only one survives. Following Fermor's marriage in 1692 to the wealthy heiress Catherine Poulett, he decided to resurrect the idea of a new mansion, and subsequently Wren's pupil Hawksmoor received the commission in about 1694. A 300-word letter written and signed by Wren in about 1685 survives, offering advice concerning the construction of Easton Neston. It was offered for sale at auction on 29 March 2011 with an estimate of £9,000, and sold for £19,200. In May 2011 a television programme featuring Easton Neston, by the
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, in the series ''
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'', was broadcast by the
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. This raised the question of whether Wren or Hawksmoor designed the building. Cruickshank obtained samples of wood from the building's roof and date tests revealed them as having originated from trees which were cut down between 1700 and 1701, which was proposed as proof that Hawksmoor was the architect, not Wren.


Exterior

Fermor had purchased a large collection of marble statues from the Arundel collection some of which he used to decorate the estate. These were removed and sold together with other items by George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret (1722–1785) (son of the 1st Earl), then in financial difficulties, and were bought by his mother Henrietta Jeffreys, daughter of
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of Wem, who in 1755 donated them to the
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in Oxford. The house Hawksmoor built at Easton Neston can best be described as a miniature
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that owes the
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of pilasters and crowning
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to the proposed design by Gabriel of the
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at
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, which building was not completed until about 50 years after Easton Neston, engravings of which design were published in ''
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''. Gabriel's design was itself influenced by the palazzi on the Campidoglio in Rome by
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(d.1564). Both main façades of Easton Neston are of simple design, devoid of ostentation. The rectangular house comprises three principal floors. The lowest is a rusticated
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, above ground level, with the two floors above appearing to have equal value—nine bays divided by Composite pilasters, each bay containing a tall, slim sash window of the same height on each floor. The central bay contains the entrance, flanked by two Composite full columns. These two columns support a small, round-headed
pediment Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds. A pedimen ...
displaying the Fermor
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and heraldic
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. Above the door at second floor height is a massive
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. The roof-line is concealed by a
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which is decorated by covered stone
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s at the ten intervals above the pilasters below. The design and fenestration of the entrance façade is repeated at the rear on the garden façade, except that the roof balustrade at the rear is undecorated by urns and pediment. The house is built of
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stone, a cream stone of exceptional quality, which has ensured that the carving appears as crisp today as it was on completion of the house in 1702. The two side elevations of the house tell the story of life in a country house before the age of the
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s' bell. Until the invention of the remote bell situated in the
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, which could be jangled by a system of
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s and pulleys from far away, it was necessary for servants to be located within earshot of a hand-bell or call of the voice. In older houses such as
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servants slept on the floor of the
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or outside the door of their master's bedchamber; by the 17th century this arrangement was becoming undesirable. Houses then began to have corridors, and the owners, rather than stepping over sleeping servants, began to tidy them away in small rooms, sometimes containing their employer's close-stool. However, these small rooms still had to be within calling distance. In a brand-new, luxurious house such as Easton Neston, this was achieved by inserting two very low-ceilinged
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staff floors between each of the two upper floors. Hence at Easton Neston, while the two principal façades (West and East) are of three floors, the fenestration of the two less important side façades betrays the secret that there are in fact five floors: the windows of the two mezzanines, as befits the humble rooms they light, are a mere half of the size of those of the grander rooms above and below them. This makes the fenestration of the side façades a complex and interesting sight. Some years after completion of the house in 1702, Hawksmoor drew-up further plans for a huge entrance court. These designs, never fully executed but published in ''
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'', would have flanked the existing rectangular house with two wings, one containing stables and the other service rooms. The fourth (entrance) side of the
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was to have been an elaborate
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. No substantial part of this later scheme was built, except for two large and now decayed Ozymandian entrance piers, marooned in the park. The two pre-existing red-brick wings (themselves perhaps owing something to Christopher Wren) remained, although the western (stable) wing was later demolished after the new stables were built. Some architectural commentators, including
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feel that Hawksmoor's mansion might have been spoilt by this new scheme, which owed more to Sir
John Vanbrugh Sir John Vanbrugh (; 24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restora ...
's architectural concepts than to Hawksmoor's. The whole proposed new design was depicted in
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's 1715 work ''Vitruvius Britannicus'', as though it had in fact been built.


Interior

The principal rooms have windows rising almost from the floor to the ceiling. The rooms are large and well proportioned without suffering from the oppressive grandeur that was to be a feature of Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor's later collaborative work. The massive main staircase, with its wrought iron
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in the style of
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, comprises two long, shallow flights ascending to the first floor
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which is decorated with
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s painted by
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. Interiors at Easton Neston have suffered various changes since Hawksmoor completed the house. Hawksmoor's
great hall A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages, and continued to be built in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries, although by then the family used the great ...
, with its high, bare walls and flanking vestibules and Corinthian columns, was sub-divided in the 19th century by Sir Thomas Hesketh, who inherited the property from his uncle, to create an upper storey containing three bedrooms. The principal
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, the only heavily decorated room in the house, has also seen change in the form of decorative
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work carried out by Artari in the mid-18th century for Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret (1698–1753), comprising a high-relief ceiling matched on the walls by huge scrolled panels and picture surrounds, with trophies containing hunting emblems.


Gardens

In the
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, Hawksmoor also designed a
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to complement the house, known as the Long Water; this is on an axis with the entrance door at the centre of the garden façade. In the 20th century the gardens overlooked by the west, or garden façade, were further enhanced by the creation of a water
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, by
Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh (17 November 1881 – 20 July 1944), known as Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, Bt, from 1924 to 1935, was a British peer, soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament. Early life Hesketh was the son of Sir T ...
(1881–1944), the great-nephew of the 5th and last Earl of Pomfret. It is decorated by box
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and
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s surrounding a large pool, which reflects the house in its water.


History

For the major part of its existence, including into the 21st century, Easton Neston has been a private house and never opened to the public; as a consequence it is little known. In March 1876
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visited England and rented Easton Neston House, using its fine stables for her horses. She used Blisworth railway station for travel to London. In 2004
Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh, KBE, PC (born 28 October 1950) is a British peer and UK Independence Party politician. Early life Hesketh succeeded in the barony (and baronetcy) on 6 October 1955, aged four, when his fath ...
, a descendant of the builder via a female line, put the house, and the surrounding estate including
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, up for sale for an asking price of £50 million. He received no offers and consequently in 2005, he sold the estate piecemeal. A part of the estate, including the main house, some outlying buildings and of land, were sold for about £15 million to
Leon Max Leon Max (born Leonid Maksovich Rodovinsky; russian: Леонид Максович Родовинский; 12 February 1954) is a Russian-American fashion designer and retailer. Early life Max was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Peter ...
, a retail businessman and designer. Lord Hesketh subsequently sold off the farmland and the Gothic village of Hulcote, but retained ownership of Towcester Racecourse. As of 2005, Max planned to use the Wren-designed wing of the house as a headquarters for his European operations, and the Hawksmoor block as his personal residence.


The Hesketh Library

The library at Easton Neston was formerly the home of a substantial collection of rare books and manuscripts, largely created by
Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh DL (8 April 1916 – 10 June 1955), was a British peer and soldier. Background and education Hesketh was the son of Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh, and Florence Louise Breckinridge, of Kentuck ...
. In 2006 the collection was deposited on loan at the library of
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, the Hesketh family having its origins in Lancashire. However, these were subsequently withdrawn from the university. In 2010 the trustees of the 2nd Baron's will trust sold some of his books, manuscripts and letters at
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.


Sources

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1965. ''Great Houses of Britain'' George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd. *
Kerry Downes Kerry John Downes (8 December 1930 – 11 August 2019) was an English architectural historian whose speciality was English Baroque architecture. He was Professor of History of Art, University of Reading, 1978–91, then Emeritus. Early life a ...
1979. ''Hawksmoor'' Thames and Hudson, London. * Mark Girouard 1978. ''Life in the English Country House'' Yale University * ''
The Country House Revealed ''The Country House Revealed'' is a six-part BBC series first aired on BBC Two in May 2011, in which British architectural historian Dan Cruickshank visits six houses never before open to public view, and examines the lives of the families who li ...
'', BBC Publications, chapter 3, Easton Neston.
The Country House Revealed – Marsh Court, Hampshire


References


External links


Easton Neston on the May 2011 BBC2 programme ''The Country House Revealed''
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