THOSE of us who relied on Netflix to lift their spirits during the long dark evenings of lockdown were rewarded by the screening in January 2021 of The Dig, a haunting dramatisation of the 1939 excavation of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial and its treasure in the grounds of the Sutton Hoo estate, Suffolk, starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan. For lovers of historic houses, however, the real star of The Dig was its ‘moody and magnificent’ location, Norney Grange at Shackleford, three miles from Godalming, Surrey, which doubled for Sutton Hoo House in the film.
An important, Grade II*-listed Arts-and crafts house built by the architect C. F. A. Voysey and set in 21 acres of landscaped gardens and woodland, Norney Grange is for sale, for the first time in 69 years, at a guide price of £8 million through Savills (07773571950). Little changed since it was built, the house has played a leading role in numerous period dramas over the years, including Carrington (1995), Midsomer Murders (2007), Miss Marple (2009) and London Spy (2015).
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey was the eldest son of the Revd Charles Voysey, a Church of England priest who lost his Yorkshire living in 1871 due to his unorthodox religious views and subsequently moved to London, where he founded the Theistic Church. A man of equally strong ethics, C. F. A. Voysey was articled to the Gothic Revival architect J. P. Seddon for five years from 1874 and later worked as an assistant to country-house architect George Devey, a follower of his father’s church, before setting up his own practice in London in 1881 or 1882.
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Save our family farms
IT Tremains to be seen whether the Government will listen to the more than 20,000 farming people who thronged Whitehall in central London on November 19 to protest against changes to inheritance tax that could destroy countless family farms, but the impact of the good-hearted, sombre crowds was immediate and positive.
A very good dog
THE Spanish Pointer (1766–68) by Stubbs, a landmark painting in that it is the artist’s first depiction of a dog, has only been exhibited once in the 250 years since it was painted.
The great astral sneeze
Aurora Borealis, linked to celestial reindeer, firefoxes and assassinations, is one of Nature's most mesmerising, if fickle displays and has made headlines this year. Harry Pearson finds out why
'What a good boy am I'
We think of them as the stuff of childhood, but nursery rhymes such as Little Jack Horner tell tales of decidedly adult carryings-on, discovers Ian Morton
Forever a chorister
The music-and way of living-of the cabaret performer Kit Hesketh-Harvey was rooted in his upbringing as a cathedral chorister, as his sister, Sarah Sands, discovered after his death
Best of British
In this collection of short (5,000-6,000-word) pen portraits, writes the author, 'I wanted to present a number of \"Great British Commanders\" as individuals; not because I am a devotee of the \"great man, or woman, school of history\", but simply because the task is interesting.' It is, and so are Michael Clarke's choices.
Old habits die hard
Once an antique dealer, always an antique dealer, even well into retirement age, as a crop of interesting sales past and future proves
It takes the biscuit
Biscuit tins, with their whimsical shapes and delightful motifs, spark nostalgic memories of grandmother's sweet tea, but they are a remarkably recent invention. Matthew Dennison pays tribute to the ingenious Victorians who devised them
It's always darkest before the dawn
After witnessing a particularly lacklustre and insipid dawn on a leaden November day, John Lewis-Stempel takes solace in the fleeting appearance of a rare black fox and a kestrel in hot pursuit of a pipistrelle bat
Tarrying in the mulberry shade
On a visit to the Gainsborough Museum in Sudbury, Suffolk, in August, I lost my husband for half an hour and began to get nervous. Fortunately, an attendant had spotted him vanishing under the cloak of the old mulberry tree in the garden.
