Llanfoist House interior pictures

 

Pictures are those that we have available at the moment - some are outdated and will be retaken as soon as we can.  In the meantime it gives something of the atmosphere of the house that is for sale.

 

The Lounge

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lounge looking through to the hallway.

 

Lounge looking through to the conservatory.

The windows in the lounge are tall Georgian windows with traditional working shutters.  There are no shutters for the doors leading into the conservatory.

 

The fireplace in the lounge.  When we moved into the house this room had a dark wallpaper - when we removed the wallpaper we saw that there were marks on the wall that showed that there had been plaster panels.  These were reinstated by ourselves, using the traditional method of drawing out the plaster with a metal former that is drawn along the wet plaster as it is put on layer by layer.  We did start making an elaborate centre piece to echo the original moulding around the edges of the ceiling, but never finished it.

 

The Conservatory

The conservatory - looking a little more orderly than usual - the table is used more for summer suppers, at the moment it makes a very nice place in which to paint - lots of light.

The dining room as it was when it was a library/study

 

Tigger comfortable in a leather chair in what was the library.  Photograph by Charles Lester

The staircase

 

Hallway looking through to the kitchen.

 

 

The front door on a sunny morning.

The dining room

The Dining Room showing the fireplace.  The walls in this room are covered in hand printed silk.

Dining Room showing  the oak doors that we had made from old timbers from the house.

Looking through the oak doors to the stairs.

 

 

Another view of the dining room showing the alcove - The walls have been covered in our own hand printed silk fabric making a luxurious and distinctive amosphere.

 

The fireplace - the fireglow is a lamp made out of Himalayan salt.

 

This dining table will seat 10 people comfortably - there is enough space in this room for a larger table - perhaps enough for 4 more people without restricting movemnet.

 

The Dining room has traditional working shutters.

 

Hallway through dining room doors.

The study

The study - enough room for a large desk and bookcase - two windows from which to watch the birds in the garden.  The walls in this room are covered in Harris Tweed.

The kitchen

The kitchen dresser - probably Christmas party time.

The main bathroom

The main bathroom.

Another picture of the bathroom.  These were taken more to show the glass art - requested by the researcher for Kirstie Allsop's television programme.

The bathroom.

The large shower in the corner of the room includes steam, body jets and overhead shower and hand held shower.

The cat

Frank in the laundry basket.

The Blue room

The Blue Room - guest room - another comfortable place for Tigger.  Timbers on the ceiling and beautiful antique fabric panels on the wall behind the bed.

 

Corner of Blue room looking through the door to the principal bathroom.

There are no shutters in this room.

Detail of the antique fabric on the walls in the blue room.

The Chinese bedroom

 

Chinese bedroom on the second floor - in the morning sunshine!

The attic bedroom on one side and studio on the other side.

 

The roof space of the house has been converted into one large U shaped room.  Perfect for guest sleeping, or for teenagers' space where they can make a mess, noise etc. and not affect the rest of the house.  There are four velux windows into the centre of the U and one on the back of the roof looking out you see the wood behind the house.  In more recent years it has been used more as an attic, but this picture shows how it could be turned into an interesting bedroom - or even two bedrooms.  The staircase from the 2nd floor to this space is a proper functioning staircase - not a ladder!