Conservatories, Green Houses, Orangeries and Winter Gardens

A jacobean house enlarged to Designs by James Wardrop c1874. Demolished c1962

Conservatory 1853. Manufactured by Gray and Ormson in London, and then transported on the train to Stourbridge. Blown up for an army training exercise in WWII

Conservatory 1853. Manufactured by Gray and Ormson in London, and then transported on the train to Stourbridge. Blown up for an army training exercise in WWII

Built for the Dundas family c1796-1799 probably to the designs of William Elliot, wings extended and remodelled to the designs of William Burn and David Bryce c1845. Demolished 1966.

Kingsknowles, Selkirk Road, Galashiels, Borders Kingsknowles was designed by William Hay for the millowner Adam Lees Cochrane and built c1868. The fine conservatory is by MacKenzie and Moncur. Kingsknowles is now a hotel.

Kingsknowles, Selkirk Road, Galashiels, Borders Kingsknowles was designed by William Hay for the millowner Adam Lees Cochrane and built c1868. The fine conservatory is by MacKenzie and Moncur. Kingsknowles is now a hotel.

The Original Mansion was built by Thomas Sewell following his acquisition of the land in 1761. Edmund Boehm purchased the Mansion in 1796 and enlarged the property with the addition of a Doric Portico, a Conservatory and an Orangery. The property remained largely unchanged until it's purchase by Sir Edward Colebrooke who, in 1868, made considerable modifications to both wings of the building. In 1910 the estate was sold to Friedrich Gustav Eckstein. Eckstein then demolished Sewell's original building to replace it with the current Mansion. Built largely on the same foundations the new Mansion had 91 rooms and was said to have cost £250,000. Such was the splendour of the new mansion that it became known as "The Wonder House of Surrey"