{"id":501,"date":"2015-10-01T00:33:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2015-09-15T18:39:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T18:39:51","slug":"october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading old descriptions of Knebworth House, from before 1811, when Mrs Bulwer Lytton knocked down three quarters of the old Tudor house and \u201cdid up\u201d the west wing, making it the house we know today.\u00a0 The four original Tudor wings surrounded a courtyard, the entrance to which was through the archway of an old tower, which was possibly even older than the Tudor house.\u00a0 We can get a sense of this entrance today, because the old tower and arch were rebuilt to the same basic design using brick from the demolished house on the Hitchin road as \u201cTower Lodge\u201d.\u00a0 Dr Kite and his family used to live there and I remember being shown how the tower had been converted into a \u201ctower shower\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>It is harder to imagine what the old fa\u00e7ade and the courtyard used to look like.\u00a0 But we have a clue, in that Edward Bulwer Lytton wrote that he remembers it looking like the front courtyard of Knole House in Kent.\u00a0 Having not ever been to Knole (the birthplace of Vita Sackville-West, and apparently the largest private dwelling in the country, with four acres of roof!), I was determined to go see for myself.\u00a0 It was remarkable approaching Knole, as it does look very much like the drawings of the old Knebworth House, and standing in the front courtyard I could very easily imagine myself back in Tudor Knebworth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:henry@knebworthhouse.com\">www.knebworthhouse.com<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Knebworth-House.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-503 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Knebworth-House-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Knebworth House\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Knebworth-House-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Knebworth-House-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Knebworth-House.jpg 1333w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Knole-House.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-502 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Knole-House-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Knole House\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Knole-House-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Knole-House-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Knole-House.jpg 1333w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading old descriptions of Knebworth House, from before 1811, when Mrs Bulwer Lytton knocked down three quarters of the old Tudor house and \u201cdid up\u201d the west wing, making it the house we know today.\u00a0 The four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=501\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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