Crichel Boys
During the interwar years, the future of the country house seemed precarious. A whole way of life was dying. After the horror of the First World War, resulting death duties brought about massive land sales - a quarter of England exchanged hands - and about four hundred houses wer… Celý popis ↓
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Crichel Boys
During the interwar years, the future of the country house seemed precarious. A whole way of life was dying. After the horror of the First World War, resulting death duties brought about massive land sales - a quarter of England exchanged hands - and about four hundred houses were either sold or pulled down.
Crichel House and Long Crichel House were two neighbouring houses in a remote part of Dorset that survived the purge.In 1945 Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knolly - three writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator - bought Long Crichel, and a new kind of experiment in living developed. After the Second World War, at a time when large houses were at a premium, there was a new series of architectural disasters: in 1955 a house was demolished every two and a half days. The house became a place in which to work, write and entertain