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Red Dressing Room
Restoration of Flitcroft’s design in the Inner Chamber F3, and Best Bedroom F1.
A Brief History
1740s subdivided to form bed alcoves off both of the adjacent rooms.
By 1840s dressing room formed by reducing alcoves to within the depth of the bedroom walls.
late 19C picture rail and panel mouldings introduced chimney piece modified with new grate and tiled surround, together with frieze set beneath earlier frieze and cornice.
What's to do
Room returned to serving as bed-alcoves off the two adjoining rooms plus corridor space. Detail of bed alcoves follows evidence within the room. Corridor subdivision follows that of the original downstand beam in the space and extends dado and decoration from the adjacent walls.
Fireplace retained as archaeology behind partitioning.
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