Blue Room (east end)

Alterations to Blue Room G5-G6.

A Brief History

17C In the original house, the present Blue Room was subdivided, providing a garden lobby that extended the corridor, leaving a two-bay anteroom (G6) that preceded the drawing room (now library G7).

1740s Flitcroft remodelling, original plan form retained.

By 1819 the space is adapted as part of the domestic accommodation for the 2nd Baron and the partition removed to combine G5 and G6 to form a billiard room.

What's to do

The subdivision of the room is reinstated to recover the Garden Lobby G5, the symmetrical arrangement of G6 about its Flitcroft chimneypiece, and the enfilade of the south reception rooms. The infil to the arch between G5 and G9 is removed and the doorsets G9/d1 and G5/d1, including the Cowtan door leaves, are reused in the new partition at G6/d1 and G5/D3. The stone floor of the corridor is extended from G9 adjacent.

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