{"id":2909,"date":"2018-04-26T16:15:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2018-04-26T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:17:38","slug":"shilstone-house-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"Shilstone House, Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Shilstone_9937.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2910\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Shilstone_9937.jpg\" alt=\"Interior\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2910\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Shilstone_9937.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Shilstone_9937-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <em>Invitation to View<\/em><br \/>\nI visited Shilstone under the &#8216;Invitation to View&#8217; scheme. Unusually for ITV, the visit was hosted by the Devon Rural Archive who are based in the adjoining outbuildings, and not by the house owners, the Fenwicks. Shilstone also trades as a wedding venue, so if you want exterior pictures, go to the Shilstone House website.<br \/>\nThe Fenwicks bought a Grade II listed farmhouse on the site and rebuilt it, preserving the most intact wing and reconstructing the remainder, which was ruinous or non-existent.  The result looks from the outside like a complete period building, but inside looks like a modern replica (which is what it is).<br \/>\nSome wings are two storey, and others (with lower ceilings) three storey, and the interiors are styled after different periods from Tudor to Georgian. There is an interior courtyard. One of the rooms contains panelling from a Jacobean house that originally stood on the site.<br \/>\nThe Shilstone restoration may not be to everyone&#8217;s taste, but it is an impressive building.<br \/>\nIn the Archive building is a small exhibition which includes pictures of &#8216;before&#8217;.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2911\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Shilstone_9935.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2911\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Shilstone_9935-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Unfinished room - not as old as it looks from outside\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2911\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unfinished room &#8211; not as old as it looks from outside<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2912\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Shilstone_9936.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2912\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Shilstone_9936-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Stairwell\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2912\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stairwell<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invitation to View I visited Shilstone under the &#8216;Invitation to View&#8217; scheme. Unusually for ITV, the visit was hosted by the Devon Rural Archive who are based in the adjoining outbuildings, and not by the house owners, the Fenwicks. Shilstone also trades as a wedding venue, so if you want exterior pictures, go to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shilstone House, Devon&#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":[5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909"}],"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=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}