Antony House, Cornwall
Category
Photographs
Date
1855 (circa)
Materials
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890166.32
Summary
A photograph of Antony showing the front of a large two-storey building with eight windows and a door on the ground floor, nine windows on the first floor and three dormer windows visible. There is a balustrade and a short flight of steps from the door to a wide straight path leading into the distance through trees, vases on plinths either side. Contained in a very large dark brown leather photograph album with gold tooling on front, back and on spine and 'Charles Lygon-Cocks / Hys / Photographs' in gold on front cover.
Provenance
Col. Charles Lygon Somers Cocks was related to the Agar-Robartes through the Carew Pole family. He commissioned George Gilbert Scott to design his house,Treverbyn Vean, St. Neot, and William Burges to design the interiors.