Manor House, Riber, Matlock, Derbyshire. £995k


This is lovely, but pricey, since I think you don’t get the whole lot, there are a pair of cottages and another wing, making up a group, according to the listing  It is listed grade ii* and seems to have been a lived in family home, rather than a just done up to sell job.

http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=429656&mode=quick

This is another house I covet, because it reminds me of Swinsty Hall where I grew up.  The panelled reception room with its mullioned and transomed window is reminiscent of the solar at Swinsty.


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76254863.html

I think knowle sofas would be better in here in gold or green or faded rose red and William Morris curtains at the windows.  A little more period furniture some good landscapes and a collection of 17th century pewter plates above the fire.  A good big country house carpet from an Irish country house sale would be better than a fitted carpet with small rugs dotted on top. The Irish country house auctions always have the best old carpets, but the auction house in Salisbury has a regular carpet sale too, the price of rugs and carpets seems to have held up better than the price of period furniture, but I don’t know who buys them, because one hardly ever sees a good carpet in a period property for sale.

https://www.adams.ie/

https://www.antiquesireland.ie/

https://www.deveres.ie/

https://fonsiemealy.ie/

http://www.hermanwilkinson.ie/

http://www.salisburyauctioncentre.co.uk/netherhampton-salerooms/netherhampton-sales/carpets-rugs-and-textiles-sale.html


I keep mentioning period oak furniture in relation to the Elizabethan and 17th century properties.  The best sale room in the country for period oak is Wilkinsons at Doncaster.  Their catalogue sales are very instructive and worth browsing at length though the stuff sells for top dollar.

https://www.wilkinsons-auctioneers.co.uk/

The Welsh auction houses also have good sales of period oak, and also in Cheshire and on the Welsh Borders, Halls Fine Art quite often has lowish estimates on things.


 


 

  

I don’t know if there is another staircase in this portion of the house, which means one wouldn’t get much period furniture up stairs, if it was of any size.  Which is possibly why the bedrooms aren’t featured much in the brochure.  Still, small coffers, joint stools, gate leg tables and little lowboys would go up, as well as wainscot chairs and back stools.

I don’t think one would get listed building consent for the orangery these days, and if the house faces south then the north side seems a funny place for it, but perhaps it would make a good artist’s studio 
with the constant, northern light source. 


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76254863.html

 


 









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