. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . 0 deer and a flock of black four-hornedsheep, similar to those which are still to be found inthe paiKs of some of the Spanish nobles, and which behind the church now called the Cascades. Thesite of the house is a remarkable one—standing high,immediately overlooking a terraced garden and com-manding a view over the deer park and a wide downcountry, due south, for some 20 miles. The archi-tects of the present house were Messrs. Beeston &Burm ster. The entrance is under an elaboratelycarved porch of heraldic design, within which is asmall outer hal
. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . 0 deer and a flock of black four-hornedsheep, similar to those which are still to be found inthe paiKs of some of the Spanish nobles, and which behind the church now called the Cascades. Thesite of the house is a remarkable one—standing high,immediately overlooking a terraced garden and com-manding a view over the deer park and a wide downcountry, due south, for some 20 miles. The archi-tects of the present house were Messrs. Beeston &Burm ster. The entrance is under an elaboratelycarved porch of heraldic design, within which is asmall outer hall, having a marble floor and wallspanelled with oak, that opens into the great hall,about 30 ft. high, with a minstrels gallery, and wallshung with Venetian tapestry. The chimneypicce isof stone and marble with a fine achievement in armsof coloured plaster work. The ceiling and deepcornice are of elaborate Jacobean plaster work. Theyand the carved oak staircase are after designs of thepresent earl with the assistancejof Mr. Charles Hurstbourne Prjors : Hurstbourne House tradition says are the descendants of some wrecked inthe Armada. The park is famous for its magnificentoaks, beeches, Spanish chestnuts, old thorns andpollard maples. There are also some gigantic yewsalong what tradition says was one of the pilgrimsways to Canterbury from the West of England. Thegreat avenues of elm, beech, oak and horse chestnut,eigl t of which converge at a grotto with a large leadfigure, were planted during the early part of the 18thcentury, many of them probably by the first Earl ofPortsmouth. In summer the park is covered withglades of bracken that grow to 7 ft. high. Hurstbourne House, a Jacobean building of redbrick and yellow carved stone, replaces a formerclassic building which again took the place of a housewhich stood actually over the River Bourne at a spot 1 Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905). There are two long galleries in the house, upperand lower, both lit by windows
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