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West Green House is an 18th-century country house at West Green in Hartley Wintney in the English county of Hampshire. The house is listed Grade II *.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=West Green House )〕 It is well known for its gardens and for its summer season of opera. ==History== The house was built in the early 18th century, by General Henry Hawley, who led the cavalry charge at the Battle of Culloden. At the beginning of the 20th century the Playfair family employed the architect Robert Weir Schulz to remodel the north front of the house and to design new gardens.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=English gardens - West Green Houses )〕 After the Playfairs left West Green House five years later, the new owner, Evelyn, Duchess of Wellington continued to improve the gardens.〔 The Duchess and her friend Yvonne Fitzroy occupied the house and garden for many years. Victor Sassoon bought the house and allowed the Duchess and her friend to live in house until the Duchess's death in 1939 and Fitzroy’s death in 1971.〔 The National Trust has owned the house since 1971, after being left the property by Victor Sassoon in 1957. Alistair McAlpine acquired the lease in 1976 and restored the gardens and added monuments designed by the classical architect Quinlan Terry. In the 1970s McAlpine and Terry constructed various follies in the grounds of the house.〔Headley and Meulenkamp 1986, p. 78.〕 One of these, a 50 feet high column topped by an elaborately carved design bears a latin inscription declaring that "this monument was built with a great deal of money which otherwise someday would have been given into the hands of the public revenue".〔Headley and Meulenkamp 1986, p. 79.〕 McAlpine also constructed a classical triumphal arch topped with an obelisk that bears a plaque dedicating the arch to the "first lady Prime Minister of Great Britain".〔 Other features placed by McAlpine and Terry in the folly garden include a trompe l'oeil Nymphaeum, a smoke house, an "eye catcher", Chinese cow sheds and an island gazebo.〔 The house was damaged by an IRA bomb attack in 1990.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=IRA Claims Blame in Wave of Blasts )〕 McAlpine had left the house three weeks previously, at the expiration of his lease.〔 Marylyn Abbott bought the lease from the National Trust in 1993. She had previously developed her well known Kennerton Green garden in Mittagong, New South Wales, Australia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「West Green House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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