{"id":2808,"date":"2017-08-05T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:57:20","slug":"renishaw-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2808","title":{"rendered":"Renishaw Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9764.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2828\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9764.jpg\" alt=\"North front\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2828\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9764.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9764-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <em>Privately Owned<\/em><br \/>\nRenishaw Hall was built by the Sitwell family. The core of the house was built in the 1620&#8217;s, and it was extended in stages from 1793 to 1806, adding a grand dining room, kitchen area, drawing room and ballroom wing. Minor changes were made in the 1890&#8217;s and 1908-9. The house now has a long, symmetrical north front in a somewhat Gothic style, with crenellations.<br \/>\nOn the ground floor are various well-decorated and furnished rooms, the more notable being the dining room with semicircular apse, the Library, the long Drawing Room and the Ballroom. The Ballroom is currently furnished as a grand sitting room. The Old Kitchen is preserved with some early contents, but was not used as the main kitchen after the 1940&#8217;s.  The contents of the house include some good furniture, and paintings by artists patronized by the Sitwells, as well as family portraits.<br \/>\nThe old stable block has an exhibition room devoted to the three famous literary Sitwells, Dame Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell.<br \/>\nThe substantial gardens to the south of the house have formal gardens near the house and informal areas further away. A number of pieces of statuary stand in the gardens.<br \/>\nAccess to the house is by conducted tour.<\/p>\n<p>Impressive frontages, interesting contents, attractive gardens.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2829\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9765.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2829\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9765-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"North Front, centre\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2829\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Front, centre<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2830\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9768.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2830\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9768-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gardens\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2830\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2831\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9769.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2831\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9769-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gardens\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2831\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2832\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9770.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2832\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9770-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pond with fountain\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2832\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Swimming Pool&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2833\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9771.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2833\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Renishaw_9771-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Box hedge on island in pond\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2833\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Fish Pond&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privately Owned Renishaw Hall was built by the Sitwell family. The core of the house was built in the 1620&#8217;s, and it was extended in stages from 1793 to 1806, adding a grand dining room, kitchen area, drawing room and ballroom wing. Minor changes were made in the 1890&#8217;s and 1908-9. The house now has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Renishaw Hall&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}