I really enjoyed The Clockmakers’s Daughter by Kate Morton and was thrilled to discover that Avebury Manor had been part of the inspiration behind the novel. So having seen Avebury Ring and enjoyed a coffee we went to see the Manor House- sadly it’s closed for you know what, but we did have a good walk round the outside.
Spot the twin gables!
From the side
Keep going
And the back
Someone is going in!
The dove cote
Just see how many doves there are spaces for
No wonder local people objected to such dove houses- just to feed the Nobilty whilst the doves ate the locals crops.
Finally this lovely row of cottages which must once if not now have been for the estate workers
Hope you liked the tour round the outside- maybe next year I will be able to go inside.
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Shame you couldn’t go inside, it looks a lovely house x
A treat for next year.
How lovely! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for reading.
Oh darn that you couldn’t get in! I’m so tired of you know what.
It looks so lovely. You took really nice photos. So nice to see its well kept up still. What year was it first built? The workers cottages are so lovely! But I wonder if their work hours were so long they only hung their hat there.
I don’t know how old it is- something to find out next year hopefully. People used to work all hours of daylight.
Looks lovely, definitely worth a return visit 🙂
So many places now that I really want to visit…………
It looks like a lovely Manor. Hope you get to see inside soon
Maybe they will open in the Spring, I hope so
What a beautiful place. Just jumps out of a movie.
Yes it does- I wonder if anything was filmed there?
If not it should
What a nice walk around though, the workers cottages looked beautiful too!
Pretty on the outside and I bet lovely inside too.
I was there, and I remember the dovecote! Lovely.
How wonderful, glad it brings back memories.
It does! There was a young man the spitting image of Alex Langlands doing a falconry demonstration, and peacocks roaming the grounds.
Looks really interesting. I am reading The Clockmaker’s Daughter at the moment on an ebook. Ebooks seem to take longer to read than real books or is it a very thick book?
It’s a big book and worth reading slowly tp eek out the pleasure.
A nice looking manor house and seeing inside is something for you to look forward to but to be honest I prefer the row of red brick cottages, they look much prettier 🙂
They are rather splendid looking- just had to include them.
It was a good book, wasn’t it? The description was very good, because this house very closely resembles what I imagined when I read it
I thought people who liked the book would enjoy seeing this house- Kelmscott was also in the author’s mind, so sometime I will go and take pictures of that too.
How wonderful! I’m reading this book at the moment!
Perfect timing- I hope you like the book, I really enjoyed it- for once going as slowly as possible so I didn’t get to the end.
Well, that little taster has given you something else to look forward to.
The list of places to go grows, and there is a little museum!
Lovely house. It will be so good to see inside.
I know- if only they would open, but too late for this year now.
What a lovely place! Thanks for sharing your photos 🙂
I can’t wait to be allowed in!