Kedleston Hall

It was a VERY wet Wednesday.

So a trip to a National Trust property was called for and Kedleston Hall, near Derby, was perfect.

Kedleston Hall on wikipedia

Kedleston Hall is an English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately four miles north-west of Derby, and is the seat of the Curzon family whose name originates in Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy. Today it is a National Trust property.

The Curzon family have owned the estate at Kedleston since at least 1297 and have lived in a succession of manor houses near to or on the site of the present Kedleston Hall. The present house was commissioned by Sir Nathaniel Curzon (later 1st Baron Scarsdale) in 1759. The house was designed by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham and was loosely based on an original plan by Andrea Palladio for the never-built Villa Mocenigo. At the time a relatively unknown architect, Robert Adam was designing some garden temples to enhance the landscape of the park; Curzon was so impressed with Adam's designs, that Adam was quickly put in charge of the construction of the new mansion.


This view is of one of the main ceremonial State rooms, far too ornate to be lived in and is just intended to emphasise wealth, importance and status. It's been recently restored and is just stunning. As is the park, but it was far too wet to explore outdoors !

There is to be a documentary about an exhibition they are about to have and consequently there were media people about
Photographer taking a rolling shot of the windows in the ceiling

I wasn't driving - so it was lovely to
arrive in style