Castle Drogo is a country house near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. The English country house is generally accepted as a large House or Mansion, once in the ownership of an individual who also usually owned another Great Drewsteignton is a Village and Civil parish within the administrative area of West Devon, England, also lying within the Dartmoor National Devon is a large county in the South West of England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, but that is an entirely unofficial name England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland It was built in the 1910s and 1920s for Julius Drewe (businessman and founder of the Home and Colonial Stores) to designs by architect Edwin Lutyens, and is a Grade I listed building. An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA, LLD ( 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944 A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural historical or cultural significance [1] Castle Drogo was the last castle to be built in England, and probably the last private house in the country to be built entirely of granite. Granite (ˈɡrænɪt is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, Felsic, igneous rock.
The stately home borrows styles of castle building from the medieval and Tudor periods, along with more minimalist contemporary approaches. A stately home is strictly speaking one of about 500 large properties built in England between the mid-16th century and the early part of the 20th century as well as converted A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor was an English royal Dynasty that lasted 118 years from 1485 to 1603 a period known as the Tudor period Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design especially Visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features A notable feature is the encasement of the service staircase, around which the main staircase climbs. Its defensive characteristics are essentially decorative.
The castle has a fine formal garden, designed by Lutyens with planting by Gertrude Jekyll, which contrasts effectively with its striking setting on the edge of Dartmoor. A formal garden in the Western gardening tradition is a neat and ordered Garden laid out in carefully planned geometric and symmetric lines Gertrude Jekyll ( November 29, 1843 – December 8, 1932) (surname pronounced /ˈdʒiˌkəl/) was an influential British garden Dartmoor is an area of Moorland in the centre of Devon, England. The garden is noted for its rhododendrons and magnolias, herbaceous borders, rose garden, shrub garden and circular croquet lawn. Rhododendron (from the Greek: rhodos, "rose" and dendron, "tree" is a genus of flowering plants in the family Magnolia is a large Genus of about 210 Flowering plant Species in the subclass Magnolioideae of the family A herbaceous border is a collection of perennial Herbaceous plants (plants that live for more than two years and are soft-stemmed and non-woody arranged closely together Croquet is a Game played both as a recreational Pastime and as a competitive Sport which involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through
The property was given to the National Trust in 1974 and was the first 20th-century property the charity acquired. The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is a conservation organization in England, Wales The definition of charitable organization, and of charity varies according to the country and in some instances the region of the country in which the charitable organization operates
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External links
- Castle Drogo information at the National Trust
- BBC article from October 11, 2004 about Castle Drogo's repairs
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