{"id":2217,"date":"2015-05-28T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T09:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2015-05-28T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T09:25:15","slug":"lytes-cary-manor-somerset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2217","title":{"rendered":"Lytes Cary Manor, Somerset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LytesCary_8634.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LytesCary_8634.jpg\" alt=\"Lytes Cary front\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LytesCary_8634.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LytesCary_8634-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> This medieval manor was originally the family home of Elizabethan herbalist Henry Lyte. A copy of his book on herbs can be seen in the hall.  In the 1750&#8217;s the Lytes were forced to vacate the house, which became partly ruinous. Sir Walter Jenner and his wife bought the house in 1907, restored the medieval part of the house and built a new family wing on the east side.<br \/>\nToday, visitors can see the medieval part of the house, with period contents collected by the Jenners. A number of downstairs rooms and three bedrooms can be seen. Outside is the chapel, which predates the house and, has no direct access from the house.<br \/>\nLyte&#8217;s original gardens have long disappeared, but the Jenners created gardens in an Arts and Crafts style, and the gardens were  further developed in the 1960&#8217;s onward by National Trust tenants the Chittendens. The garden contains a formal section with lawn and yew bushes, and other more informal parts.<br \/>\nWhile of modest size, the house contains various rooms and contents of interest.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2219\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LytesCary_8633.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LytesCary_8633-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lytes Cary North Front\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2219\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North front<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2220\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LytesCary_8636.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/LytesCary_8636-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lytes Cary West Front\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2220\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Front<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This medieval manor was originally the family home of Elizabethan herbalist Henry Lyte. A copy of his book on herbs can be seen in the hall. In the 1750&#8217;s the Lytes were forced to vacate the house, which became partly ruinous. Sir Walter Jenner and his wife bought the house in 1907, restored the medieval &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lytes Cary Manor, Somerset&#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":[4,5,16,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}