Category Archives: Regency Household

View of a Country Estate: Watermouth, Devon

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A painting of Watermouth manion in Devon

The description and painting appeared in the August 1825 edition of Ackermann’s Repository. The building is actually called Watermouth Castle, but was built in 1825 Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: The Withdrawing Rooms

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Ground plans of two manor homes circa Regency

  In a follow up from my post/questions about bathroom habits of Regency people, and expanding on an earlier post about cloak rooms and withdrawing Continue →

Regency Household: A Boudoir Table and an Episcopal Chair

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In what sounds like the opening line of a bad joke, the November 1825 issue of Ackermann’s Repository featured the fashionable furniture combination of an Continue →