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and to continue to use it for hospitality and retail. Perkins remained at the estate under a short-term lease, leaving after having disposed of his art collection at the estate in a high-profile auction in
January 2021. RH England, The Gallery at Aynho Park opened in June 2023, with three restaurants
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Under
Perkins' ownership the estate was reimagined, and remodelled, several times as he sought to make it economically viable through a broad array of commercial activities at the estate. The service wings were initially converted to office use (use class B1), and the retirement apartments in the
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Aynhoe Park is a pedimented main block with lower service blocks on each side forming a courtyard. The arrangement dates from the early 18th century when Thomas Archer was commissioned to enlarge the
Jacobean house. Archer, who had visited Italy, added unusual late-Baroque detailing, such as the
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regularise the existing use of the estate as an events venue with integrated hospitality and accommodation, and as a retail space, with separate owner's living quarters in the lower floors of the west wing (where he and his family had lived and continued to live until they left the property). A
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in London; but these interiors were never built. Soane did redesign the reception rooms along the garden front in a modest style in 1800–5 and, with the exception of the French
Drawing Room, these interiors have survived and illustrate the architect's exploitation of curved surfaces. Soane also
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The service wings were converted into seven self-contained apartments (use class C3) under a planning permission granted in 2013, and three further brand new dwellings were being constructed on the grounds of the estate by 2020. In 2019, Perkins successfully applied for planning permission to
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The interiors, created by Archer with the exception of the main staircase, have been remodelled. Aynhoe Park has, however, retained the rooms designed by Soane. He was instructed to prepare designs for a thorough remodelling of the interior in 1795—drawings for this work can be seen in the
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too large to be used as a single dwelling. Under the CHA's ownership the main block and service wings at the estate were converted into multiple retirement apartments, and were used as such until the CHA went into liquidation in 2004. The estate was ultimately acquired by
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held his 50th birthday party at the venue. A retail shop was also added in the main block that was used for
Perkins' art and antique business, and car parking facilities were expanded for 90+ cars for guests. An acclaimed sustainable white
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created the top-lit staircase with its iron balustrade in the south wing and the "triumphal arches" which link the main block to the service wings. There is an exhibition of Soane's work at the estate, a collaboration between
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Up to 1954, it was the family home of the
Cartwright family. Since then, it was used for fifty years as a retirement apartment complex, and has for the last twenty years been an events-led, multi-use site.
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concave surrounds to the central doorways of the service blocks. The middle of the garden front remained largely unchanged since it was built in the 1660s.
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The surroundings represent an early formal garden with landscape park. Gardens were laid out by Mr
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magazine by Gordon Nares in July 1953. Cartwright and his only son and heir were killed in a car crash in 1954 (there was also one daughter).
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farm was re-established and remains in operation at the estate, selling more than 100 deer per year by 2019, and continuing to do so today.
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