Boconnoc House, Lostwithiel
Boconnoc can trace its history back to the Normans. The estate and house were taxed in the Domesday Roll A.D.1087. At one stage it belonged to the Pitt family and it was eventually bequeathed to the Fortescue...
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Odsey House, Cambridgeshire
Odsey House, built in the early 18th century, is said to be the only surviving purpose built racing lodge in England, which partly accounts for its Grade I listing. The Doric portico I was employed to advise...
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Compton Bassett House, Wiltshire
In 1659 Compton Bassett House was a U-shaped building which was open to the south-east. Its main range, lying north-east and south-west, had a hall at its north-east end and, south-west of the hall, a screens...
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Elstree School
Elstree School was founded in 1848, in Elstree, Hertfordshire. With the outbreak of war in 1939, staff and 70 boys moved to Woolhampton House in Berkshire. This fine Georgian house, standing in a 150-acre estate...
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Marlborough Gate, St James’s Park, London
I was commissioned to carry out an analysis of the paint on the gates leading on to The Mall. View Larger...
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Hidcote Manor Garden
Hidcote Manor, near Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire was purchased, as a farm, in 1907 by Gertrude Winthrop, a widow. After serving in the First World War her son Major Lawrence Johnston took over the house and...
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Edinburgh Assembly Rooms
I was employed to examine the history of the Edinburgh Assembly Rooms and learn what I could of their decoration. I produced a detailed proposal for an analysis of the paint in order to provide the information...
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Tryon Palace, New Bern
I was employed to provide advice on the decoration and to discuss matters of presentation in this modern reconstruction of the historical colonial royal governors' palace of the Province of North Carolina. View...
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Valentines Mansion, Ilford
Valentines Mansion is situated in Valentines Park in the London Borough of Redbridge. Built in 1696 for Lady Tillotson, the widow of the Archbishop of Canterbury, it was a family house until Sarah Ingleby, its last...
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Mansfield Street – various
Over the years I have carried out various jobs in eighteenth century houses in Mansfield Street. These have ranged from paint analysis to advice on colour and paint technical matters. Patrick advised on the...
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