Bedstone Court
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Bedstone Court is an imposing 19th-century country house situated at Bedstone
, Shropshire
, England
. It is occupied by Bedstone College, an independent educational establishment, and is a Grade II listed building.
The red brick and black-and-white timbered house was built between 1882 and 1884, to a design by architect Thomas Harris, for Sir Henry Ripley
, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and Member of Parliament
. The multi-gabled three-storey house has wooden mullioned and transomed windows and is a calendar house
reputed to have 365 windows, 52 rooms (on the first two floors), 12 chimneys and 7 external doors. The central hall has a 52-panelled stained-glass window depicting the months of the year, signs of the zodiac, birds associated with the months and agricultural activities of the months.
The Ripley family sold the house for educational purposes in about 1950. The building was heavily damaged by a fire in 1996 but was fully restored and continues to be the centre-piece of Bedstone College.
Bedstone
Bedstone is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, close to the borders of Herefordshire and Wales.The village is approximately 1½ miles from the railway stations at Hopton Heath and Bucknell and is situated just off the B4367 road.- Norman Origin :Its church dates back to...
, Shropshire
Shropshire
Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It is occupied by Bedstone College, an independent educational establishment, and is a Grade II listed building.
The red brick and black-and-white timbered house was built between 1882 and 1884, to a design by architect Thomas Harris, for Sir Henry Ripley
Sir Henry Ripley, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry William Ripley, 1st Baronet , was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician who switched to the Conservative Party....
, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
. The multi-gabled three-storey house has wooden mullioned and transomed windows and is a calendar house
Calendar house
A Calendar House is a house that symbolically contains architectural elements in quantities that represent the respective numbers of days in a year, weeks in a year, months in a year and days in a week.- Examples :...
reputed to have 365 windows, 52 rooms (on the first two floors), 12 chimneys and 7 external doors. The central hall has a 52-panelled stained-glass window depicting the months of the year, signs of the zodiac, birds associated with the months and agricultural activities of the months.
The Ripley family sold the house for educational purposes in about 1950. The building was heavily damaged by a fire in 1996 but was fully restored and continues to be the centre-piece of Bedstone College.