CDE256

Ashford, Kent: Proposed reconstruction of Eastwell Park for Sir John de Fonblanque Pennefather, Bt, by Franklin & Deacon, Luton. Includes drawings of Markyate Cell, Hertfordshire. Later work on building and estate for Viscount Dunsford by Basil C Deacon.

1924-27, Franklin & Deacon. 1928-9, Basil C Deacon

From: 1924 To: 1929

Eastwell Park is now (2015) the Eastwell Manor Hotel. Drawings include: perspective sketches, plans, sections, elevations, details, sketches for coats of arms and other decorative work, chimneys, windows, staircases, revised layout to the iris garden, blueprints of steelwork, outbuildings and kitchen yard. Drawings are also included of Markyate Cell (now also referred to as Markyatecell Park or Cell Park), Hertfordshire, also owned by Sir John Pennefather. The North East and North Kent volume of Pevsner's "The Buildings of England", 3rd edition 1983, states that: "The demolished mansion of the Earls of Winchilsea (by Bonomi) does have a successor. Bizarrely, it is a replica, by B C Deacon in 1926-28, of Robert Lugar's neo-Elizabethan mansion, Markyate Cell, Hertfordshire, with some genuine Tudor panelling from Markyate brought in. Thus was the whim of Sir John Pennefather gratified."

The drawings appear in the Charter Design Partnership as, after the Second World War, Basil Deacon became a partner in the company under the name Deacon & Gude and later Deacon & Laing. He presumably brought this project with him from his previous practice, Franklin & Deacon of Luton, as an example of his major work.

sub-fonds

Charter Building Design Partnership,
Franklin & Deacon,
Deacon, Basil Charlton,
Pennefather, John de Fonblanque,
Dunsford

Charter Building Design Partnership, Franklin & Deacon, Basil Charlton Deacon, plans, Kent Eastwell Park, Kent, Hertfordshire, Markyate Cell