National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

Lewes / Regno Unito

Il National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty è un'organizzazione che lavora per conservare e proteggere l'eredità storica e naturale di Inghilterra, Galles e Irlanda del Nord. Il Trust non è attivo in Scozia, dove c'è un indipendente National Trust for Scotland. Secondo il sito web ufficiale: Fu fondato nel 1895 da Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter e Hardwick Rawnsley. Il primo edificio acquisito dal National Trust fu, nel 1896, la Clergy House di Alfriston .Nel 2009-2010 le proprietà del National Trust più visitate sono state : Wakehurst Place Garden — 439.627 Stourhead — 351.358 Waddesdon Manor — 348.308 Abbazia di Fountains — 339.326 Attingham Park - 257.340 Polesden Lacey — 256.493 Belton House — 249.785 Ponte di corda di Carrick-a-Rede — 248.609 Calke Abbey - 244.767 St Michael's Mount — 240.557

Charleston Farmhouse

Lewes / Regno Unito

Charleston, in East Sussex, is a property associated with the Bloomsbury group, that is open to the public. It was the country home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and is an example of their decorative style within a domestic context, representing the fruition of more than sixty years of artistic creativity. In addition to the house and artists' garden, Charleston hosts a year-round programme of Bloomsbury and contemporary exhibitions in a suite of galleries designed by Jamie Fobert Architects which opened in September 2018. Two restored barns are home to The Threshing Barn café and The Hay Barn where events and workshops are held throughout the year. The outer studio at Charleston hosts a permanent display of Bell and Grant's Famous Women Dinner Service, and there is also a shop selling Bloomsbury-inspired art, homeware fabrics, fashion, books and stationery. Charleston hosts a number of special events throughout the year, most notably the Charleston Festival, which each May invites artists, writers, thinkers and changemakers to discuss the best in art, literature, ideas and politics, past and present, just as the Bloomsbury group did around the Charleston dining table. The house is located in the village of Firle, in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England.

Lewes Castle

Lewes / Regno Unito

Lewes Castle is a medieval castle in the town of Lewes in East Sussex, England. Originally called Bray Castle, it occupies a commanding position guarding the gap in the South Downs cut by the River Ouse and occupied by the towns of Lewes and Cliffe. It stands on a man-made mount just to the north of the high street in Lewes, and is constructed from local limestone and flint blocks.

Monk's House

Lewes / Regno Unito

Monk's House is a 16th-century weatherboarded cottage in the village of Rodmell, three miles south of Lewes, East Sussex, England. The writer Virginia Woolf and her husband, the political activist, journalist and editor Leonard Woolf, bought the house by auction at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, on 1 July 1919 for 700 pounds, and received there many visitors connected to the Bloomsbury Group, including T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry and Lytton Strachey. The purchase is described in detail in her Diary, vol. 1, pp. 286–8. Virginia's sister, the artist Vanessa Bell, lived at nearby Charleston Farmhouse in Firle from 1916, and though contrasting in style, both houses became important outposts of the Bloomsbury Group. The National Trust now operates the building as a writer's house museum.