tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post72589491967110131..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Solihull, WarwickshirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-14651608269228016812021-02-13T16:17:08.577+00:002021-02-13T16:17:08.577+00:00Just found this page on the barn. I have just acq...Just found this page on the barn. I have just acquired a vintage magic lantern slide of this barn ...date unknown but certainly 1900-1930 i think ... and had set myself up for the disappointment of the buikding not having survived, so very happy to see it still exists!JamesFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797575347985952156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-55515330984265971672014-02-05T08:03:36.795+00:002014-02-05T08:03:36.795+00:00This are one of the finest arts in solihull ,they ...This are one of the finest arts in solihull ,they are the oldest buildings of that time thanks for bringing forward to us.its as good as a new build houseEstate Agents Solihullhttp://www.simonburthomes.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-49637684775115226782012-04-02T20:45:37.433+01:002012-04-02T20:45:37.433+01:00Matthew: Thanks you, that's really interesting...Matthew: Thanks you, that's really interesting information. The group of early West Midlands Doric buildings are very different, aren't they, in their interpretation of the order. For example the Hagley temple and Great Packington both with fluted columns (the latter with a pronounced variation in diameter), the Soane building and (I think) the Warwick gaol unfluted. I'll have to go round all these buildings again to compare them!Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-86941686106465994022012-04-02T20:09:17.906+01:002012-04-02T20:09:17.906+01:00The gatehouse is used now as office space. I live ...The gatehouse is used now as office space. I live a minutes' walk from there. The near contiguous Bruton and Malvern Parks form what was the Greswolde estate. Soane also worked on Malvern Hall on Bruton Avenue, which was the centrepiece of the estate. It was also, notably, painted several times by the young Constable.<br /><br />Of the building itself: it really is a little curio, not quite a folly on account of its functional value, but certainly a piece of playful and delightful estate scenery; and owing as much to contemporary French Classicism in its brawny Doric look, as to the Paestum ruins, cf. work of Ledoux. <br /><br />The dating of 1798 to the barn puts it more towards Soane's early maturity, as it follows his work at Tyringham by five years. Nevertheless it is curious as an early piece of Doric design, two decades before the popularity of the Greek style. In this quality it forms a group with other early Greek work focused in the West Midlands: Stuart's Temple at Hagley of the 1750s; Bonomi's Great Packington Church of 1790; and the county gaol at Warwick of 1783.Matthewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-71761661750847049832012-03-15T09:27:32.353+00:002012-03-15T09:27:32.353+00:00Bazza: I'm not sure. There's not must indu...Bazza: I'm not sure. There's not must industry round there, so the bricks may never have needed cleaning.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-5234941233530327322012-03-15T09:26:06.392+00:002012-03-15T09:26:06.392+00:00Hels: I must check what else he'd designed by ...Hels: I must check what else he'd designed by this point – I'm sure he'd already produced some quite sophisticated buildings, and he probably <i>was</i> aiming at a deliberate simplicity here.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-33945787419886268832012-03-15T09:18:44.517+00:002012-03-15T09:18:44.517+00:00The bricks appear as brand-new. Do you think they ...The bricks appear as brand-new. Do you think they have been cleaned or are they just pollution free?<br />Although not strictly obedient to Classical rules it does have it's own degree of elegance.<br /> <a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> Click here for Bazza’s Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-60173461787364197982012-03-15T09:05:30.649+00:002012-03-15T09:05:30.649+00:00The barn was certainly designed in the simplest, p...The barn was certainly designed in the simplest, plainest and most ordinary red-brick classicism. <br /><br />Perhaps it WAS a kind of homage to the ruins that Soane had seen at Peastum. More likely it was an exercise that all young people do in Early Career - they play around and test themselves. Luckily Soane improved :)<br /><br />Sometimes I read papers that I wrote at 25 and shudder.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-76735644596258123282012-03-15T08:07:58.093+00:002012-03-15T08:07:58.093+00:00Desingers Muse: Thanks for your comment. It does h...Desingers Muse: Thanks for your comment. It does have a stark beauty, I agree. I've read that it's used as 'private accommodation', but it was impossible to see the building from the other side, so I don't know how that works. No windows are visible from the road.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-53752005361934389032012-03-15T01:01:04.718+00:002012-03-15T01:01:04.718+00:00How interesting...I've never heard of or seen ...How interesting...I've never heard of or seen this building before. It's kind of oddly beautiful. Is is used as a barn?the designers musehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09870200821796271267noreply@blogger.com