A Double Challenge

I have had some more photos ready to show which illustrate No. 3 of the Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt A Framed View.   Yesterday  Nancy Maerill set a challenge Openings which is again asking for a view through a frame of some description. I have therefore combined the two challenges to give you a slightly different view of a property in East Cornwall.

 Lanhydrock is a large estate just outside Bodmin. It has been owned by The National Trust since 1953. It had previously been the home of the Robates family since the 1620's. Sadly the male heir Tommy was killed during the First World War and despite being one of 10 his siblings left no heir to the estate. The house is left as it was in late Victorian times and is an imposing granite building. 

I will give you a framed peep of different parts of the house and grounds. The first view is what you see when you approach the arched gateway looking up to the house.

Then looking backwards through the same arch. The gateway is actually part of a hunting lodge and was not actually built big enough for the carriages which had to sweep around the side of the house by the stable yard. This is the view looking back out the main door of the house.

While touring the house there were a few opportunities to peep back outside. Some of the windows had very old glass which gave too distorted a view with the exception of this one again looking towards the gatehouse.

The Victorian kitchens are extensive with a whole suite of different rooms. There are many such corridors as this to walk through. The panel on the wall at the end is relevant to another scavenger prompt for another day.

This gate looked out of the kitchen corridor into a courtyard. Probably once a busy thoroughfare for servants.

Back outside in the stableyard a grand old fortified door separates the stables from the formal gardens.

The church is directly behind the house and is viewed here through the main gate.

Then the back of the churchyard from the upper gardens.

That is where my 'framed tour' ends!