{"id":3421,"date":"2021-12-17T22:29:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T22:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2021-12-17T22:29:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T22:29:57","slug":"polesden-lacey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=3421","title":{"rendered":"Polesden Lacey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Polesden_1098.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Polesden_1098.jpg\" alt=\"House front\" width=\"800\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Polesden_1098.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Polesden_1098-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Polesden_1098-768x361.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>National Trust<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While there were houses on the site from the 17th century, the current house was built in the early 1900&#8217;s. It was bought by and fitted out for super-rich McEwan brewery heiress Maggie Greville and her husband Ronald. The principal rooms received showy interiors in a succession of different architectural styles with much use made of architectural salvage.\u00a0 Maggie Greville was a famous society hostess who entertained the rich and famous, including royalty. During the wars she was apparently sympathetic to appeasement and entertained the Nazi ambassador, von Ribbentrop.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie Greville added to her father&#8217;s collection of art, and the picture collection is impressive, including some Old Masters. There is also china and other objects of art.<\/p>\n<p>The grounds include various formal and walled gardens as well as various lawns, areas of woodland, and walks.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of my visit only the ground floor rooms were open, and these were decorated for Xmas.\u00a0 Most of the items of interest could be seen in a 2-hour visit. It is probably worth having the guidebook to hand as you look around the house. There is also a more expensive guide to the pictures, but it only illustrates about half of them, so more use for taking around than reading afterwards.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3428\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Polesden_1099.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Polesden_1099-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saloon decorated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3429\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Polesden_1100.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3429\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Polesden_1100-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saloon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Trust While there were houses on the site from the 17th century, the current house was built in the early 1900&#8217;s. It was bought by and fitted out for super-rich McEwan brewery heiress Maggie Greville and her husband Ronald. The principal rooms received showy interiors in a succession of different architectural styles with much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=3421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polesden Lacey&#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":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421"}],"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=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3430,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}