Exploring Waddesdon Manor Stately Home

Exploring Waddesdon Manor Stately Home

today we’re in Booking gam Shire we’re going to a place called werson mana and this place was completed in around 1883 and um it actually resembles a French shatter in the English Countryside and it was built for a member of the Roth child banking family so um it should be pretty interesting to have a look at I think this might be the village of wers done here you can see some of the old building all right so need to turn right there little to a to St on Street cyclist some nice ornate Gates here I suppose that’s the uh Gate House on the right we’ve just gone past be nice and patient with a horse I think this just takes us onto um like a modern car park now and interestingly cuz I think the house is about a half an hour walk from the car park so they actually run a shutter bus service and um I’ve booked a ticket for that and I think the ticket was about £250 return so yeah as you can see this is quite a modern little uh car parking area [Music] there’s the bus here we are just got off the bus there’s wone Mana in the distance in front of us well it’s a lovely day for it nice and warm but not too hot nice and sunny I think what I’m going to do first is um have a look at the exterior of the house then I’m going to have a look at some of the gardens and grounds and then I’ve got a house to her and um then I’ll continue having a look at the gardens and GRS a bit more in incidentally leading down to the house there’s uh four rows of oak trees and these are relatively recent and uh there were more mature oak trees leading down to the house here but I believe uh they fell victim to disease and stuff so they had to be removed so these are relatively recent and it looks like this place gets its fair share of international visitors actually cuz I’ve already seen some uh from Jamaica and I’ve seen some Oriental as well but I’m not sure exactly what country they’re from not far from the front of the house on the lawn we’ve got this uh Modern Art teapot I think this is made of iron yeah feels like it so this is the grade one listed werson Manor and this was built for Baron Ferdinand de Roth’s child as a summer Retreat where he could entertain family and friends for the the weekend House parties and also to H’s collection of arts and antiques before the house was built the be estate was bought from the Duke of malor and at this point the V of Albury was already known as Roth’s Char Shire for the number of houses owned by the family in the area the foundation stone for the house was laid in 1877 and 6 years later the land had been transformed into a beautiful landscape by planting mature trees and bringing in water supply from Alsbury the substantial art collection includes Pieces by gainsb and Joshua Reynolds there’s a nice Port CET here where you could uh turn up in your carriage or your car and when it was raining you could get out without getting wet and then enter straight into the house those are the big main doors for the front of the house and if we move a bit further down if you look at this bit jutting out from uh this bit of the house there’s a really fine staircase in there which hopefully we’ll see when I go inside the house and there’s one of those each side of the entrance ferdinandy Roth chard wanted the exterior of the house to be in the style of the French Renaissance shadow of the LW Valley and so he engaged a French architect Gabrielle hippolite D DEA to carry out his plans in 1883 the completion of the house was celebrated with the first of many many House Parties running water and central heating were provided from the start and electricity was introduced in 1889 werson was very much renowned for its entertainement and hospitality and uh ferdinandy roard actually installed a small passenger lift for Queen Victoria’s visit in 1890 but she declined to rid in it not trusting the newly introduced electricity the house had hot and cold running water in its bathrooms Central Heating and also an electric Bell System to summon the numerous servants very little changed until the second world War when the rooms were emptied to accommodate 100 children evacuated from London the first and the only time the children lived in the house after the war James de rooth’s child became increasingly concerned about the future of won and so we decided to bequ it to the National Trust James also left a large Endowment for the continued upkeep of the property this ensured that the house remained intact as the only example of the famous roths CH style of the 19th century on the way in from the bus window um I saw the north fountain and there’s also this lovely fountain at the rear of the house the parts of the two fountains were originally at the Dual Palace of Colona near Palmer in Italy and these were brought to werson by ferdinandy Roth’s child and most of the statu here was collected and it’s actually uh mostly 18th century as opposed to the 19th century house if you walk down these steps uh the rear of the house still you can see there’s another little uh pool here you can hear running water so there we are just come down a little level at the rear of the house and if we continue down here there’s another sort of uh n or Bowl this one’s depicting some kind of uh fish or some kind of Serpent and then there’s a lawn that runs down past the rear of the house and then still at the rear of the house as you’ve probably seen already we’ve got the gorgeous part and the colors are absolutely beautiful at the moment even all the pots and stuff have got gorgeous color in them at the moment and the part A really is the highlight of the formal garden and this was restored in 1994 to designs by Beth Roth’s child and the part A is planted with a new design twice a year using around 110,000 plants and werson won the europan Nostra award in 2000 for the extraordinary Recreation with modern techniques of a major Victorian Garden this is gorgeous this is one of the nicest ones you’ll actually find at um the country houses that you’ll visit in this country various ears and uh bits of statur peppered all over the place and no believe this little room here um at the rear of the house near one of the corners I think this was a summer little uh house and this was added a few years after the rest of the house was completed there’s the doors leading into the house and out of the house from that little room as I said lots of bits of staty around and this place has got a fine Avary for uh keeping birds and stuff so I’m going to have a little uh walk over there now I think some lovely all night fencing uh at the rear of the house by the way and if we pop in here as well uh look at the drain pipes have been given some decoration there’s a beautiful entrance here near the side of the house as well some lovely sculpture just heading down to the IV there some more sculpture there I’m guessing that this topy bird means we’re uh near the avier you can actually hear the birds as well and there is the avier you’ll struggle to find um a finer example than this wow so this is won’s avier [Music] as you can see there’s some lovely planting around here as well this place is really gorgeous so this castan Avy was constructed in around 8 1889 and it has similar trellis work Pavilions to ones that were designed for The Gardens of veril and ferdinandy rooth’s child would take time to feed the birds himself whenever he was here at wers done as you can see very ornate again the AY now takes part in important conservation breeding projects of endangered species and one of the sculptures in the center here was actually made made for the Gardens at Bes this is really nice see some people have been dropping money in here there you can see the view I Saw The View not very far from The Av we’ve got the Rose Garden in the woods we’ve got uh sculptures of a family of elephants I believe these are made out in natural materials now this little Bridge we’re coming up to here this is called the tie bridge and it’s quite interesting actually cuz if we look over the side of the bridge you can see it’s not for water what it was actually for is when they were constructing the house they um they had a little Tramway built to uh move materials up and down the valley and um this is the remnant of where it was cut out from the side of the Hillside and actually also interesting is if you can see the rock out crops those are actually artificial rocks um by a company called J name pm and son and they used to construct those rocks and they were known as um poite or PM Rock and there are some of these elsewhere in the gardens that I’ll look at as well well if you’ve watched my other videos you might have seen them in another couple of places as well you just find things like this on your way to the next feature and here there’s a little headstone and this is for um Ferdinand de Roth’s Child’s favorite pet poodle who died in October 1903 looks like his name was Pon something like that okay so I was just talking about James pman son’s Rock work and um um a bit further on we’ve got um quite a substantial bit of his work as you can see here there’s a bit of a cave and a tunnel here and apparently this is uh all poite rock so it’s artificial Rock work this is and apparently this feature here was home to uh ferdinand’s collection of M in sheep and goats you can see there’s a bit of a tunnel that runs in there and we just sort around the rear side of that mound now with the Rocks now you can see them a bit um closer up and if we look at this bit over here in the center of the image now you can see where it’s starting to disintegrate a little bit and that’s due to the artificial nature of it and apparently one of the ways that pm and Sun uh created their large blocks of artificial stone was that they poured um lime mortar over brick and Rubble so it was obviously easier and cheaper than trying to Lug um massive pieces of rock around and Po and Son were actually granted a royal warrant for the work that they did at Sandringham and Bingham Palace and there’s a bit more of it down here see how it’s uh all a bit smashed most of it to be honest is in really good order for the age of it and apparently the account books here show a first payment um to PM as early as 1877 and then uh by 1891 they were spending around £1,000 a year um on PM rocks and yeah this bits uh just off the drive at the front of the house you can see it’s quite a large one this is goes right up on the top of the hill and round and then there’s sort of a little Alco at this side where where you can relax and get a bit of Shelter From the Sun and then there’s a nice rustic bench down there all right so now we’re going to go and have a look inside the house here we go then what is that uh this thing on the left is quite a famous thing I think it’s a mechanical elephant clock I don’t think they have it running all the time because of its age but look how lovely decorated and all night there is nice marble uh fire place but it looks it mantle piece I should say and I think this is that uh sort of Garden Room I mentioned from the outside earlier it was on the corner can see there’s the door straight side this appears to be the dining room for 161 to 17 this is the red drawing room this leads through to the gray drawing room this is the Duchess of Cumberland by Joshua Reynolds schol now I think this is the West gallery it’s full of beautiful furniture now that is a grand clock I like these chairs will tell you all about nice writing table is that your daughter no that’s my wife just going upstairs now these are the non fancy stairs this painting here shows uh the Roth Char houses across Europe stand with his host the [Music] there’s the side of those spiral staircases I love those here we are on those lovely spiral stairs Che there that’s why well your estim Det [Music] [Music] okay expensive sorry at this amazing R under that was sort of a little uh collection of treasures in that room I think we’re on to the uh some of the bedrooms now SP nice colored glass chandelier there nice tapest in yeah is I think this is the port bedroom this room was only for okay it was it was it wasn’t a family but all of the house apart from the bedrooms that laid out dining rooms now it mirrors the positions that he chose for everything when doing theour around yes so many so you still got quite a few to look at okay good good you’ll need a tea or coffee when you get to the end here’s the toilet and a bathroom can you get in there nice little room here with a little commode or something there sorry spe so many treasures and uh pieces of Art in here a lot to see in this house W now this is impressive this is obviously where they’ve decided to display uh weaponry and stuff very nice bilad here this is obviously um a mild part of the house good position to uh watch a game of Billiards there from the sofa obviously the table’s got a cover on at the moment look at the mantle Pie as well I love that ceiling I think they called that Barrel vaulted spee she mentioned this a nice little snow Grom so many rooms in this place another bathroom I think we’ll be on the way these would have been the servant steps here’s part of the electric Bell System Queen Elizabeth here in 1995 so that was a glimpse inside the Mana and um next I’m going to have a look at a few more Garden features just heading down towards the stable block now and this goes past like children’s Woodland Playground and stuff okay so this is The Stables Courtyard and this building was designed by the same architect to design the Mana this time in a French 17th century Style and as you’ll see this no houses a cafe and shops and stuff like that and this horse in the middle dates from 1885 and it’s thought to be the Duke of Wellington’s charger Copenhagen and it’s made of bronze e [Music] okay so I’ve now gone past the stables and this bit down here is called the Tet patch and apparently there used to be a complex of glass houses down here but um they’ve since gone but what we do have is um some more of this pum Rock work so again these were ornamental really and they were built to add interest to the gardens but um it has been said that sometimes animals were kept in air and again these were by James pman son obviously this um steel support’s been added in recent times just safe to to hold the roof up I can walk through there we go so again these were um boy James pulling soon and these are artificial rocks and here’s the um sort of cave at the other side of these polm rocks and again there’s a steel support inside so yeah as you can see James P and son did quite a lot of work here at [Music] werson nice tray just to the side of the path there this a mol or something like some more polm rock work here then there’s sort of an iron rope work railing as well and last but certainly not least this is the north fainting at the top of the drive in front of the house that’s gorgeous lovely weather for it as well and again this is part of a fountain that was originally a colono near Palmer in Italy there’s the house Beyond The Fountain so this has been werson mana and I’d really recommend a visit here if you’re ever in the area and I’m a big fan of the architecture of this house actually really really like it so uh thanks a lot for watching as usual I hope you enjoyed it and I’ll shall see you next time thanks a lot for

Join me as I explore the Rothschild banking family historic country house Waddesdon Manor in England. We will explore inside and outside of this beautiful place. Special mention for the James Pulham & Son (Pulhamite) rockwork around the estate. Enjoy, Adam 🙂