Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Ancestor: A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities; April, 1903
A person cannot be justly blamed for want of taste if he follows out the teachings of those, who in his lifetime, are the generally recognized exponents of art. Greatly to the regret of more than one generation of his descendants, Lord Dacre was an intimate friend and disciple of Horace Walpole, who in those days was considered one of the greatest authorities on all matters of taste, and the result of his pernicious in?uence was that under Lord Dacre's directions, a considerable portion of the house has been rebuilt in Strawberry Hill Gothic, to the entire destruction of its former picturesque appearance. Belhus is by no means the only old house which has had its charm destroyed by the misdirected zeal for its improvement of those most attached to it; indeed, most old houses in England have suffered more or less from 'improvements, ' and many have been pulled down and entirely rebuilt, so we may be thankful that Lord Dacre has spared as much as he has done, and that John Barrett's tower, and also the north front, are still standing.
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