Southwell itself is an attractive little town, full of fine Georgian and Regency buildings (1700s - early 1800s) like this house on Church Street, opposite the Minster. It reminds me of a doll's house, so symmetrical - you almost feel you could unhook the front wall and start re-arranging the furniture inside!
The town also prides itself as the birthplace of the Bramley cooking apple. The story goes that sometime between 1809 and 1815, a young woman named Mary Ann Brailsford grew an apple tree seedling from a pip from an apple grown on a tree at the bottom of her garden. The seedling went on to produce good fruit and in 1837 the house's then occupier, Matthew Bramley allowed a local gardener, Henry Merryweather, to take cuttings and register it as the Bramley Seedling.
I can't help feeling that the occupiers must lead terribly ordered lives. And surely we should be cooking Brailsford apples if there was any justice in the world!
ReplyDeleteIt does indeed look like a doll's house Jenny, and thanks for the background on the Bramley apple; I remember my mother speaking of them in glowing terms, along with Cox's Pippin (?)
ReplyDeleteWhat a charming place! It does look like it could be a doll house! Apple crisp sure sounds good about now!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your composition and execution! Designed by a strait-laced Georgian with OCD? A very fine building, lasting well.
ReplyDeleteLove the architecture; wish I could afford it! Jim
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful looking home.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE that house! So serene and balanced.
ReplyDeleteI just love Georgian architecture. There is a village near where our oldest daughter lives in Ohio where the homes are completely modeled in that style. But I see this one here is the real deal...gorgeous! ~Lili
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