CRAIGWELL HOUSE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 67, 22 March 1929, Page 15

CRAIGWELL HOUSE

Craigwell House, where tho King is convalescing, is on the outskirts of the old-world Sussex village of Aldwick, about 14 miles from Bognor (states a London exchango). The rolling South Downs form a restful and beautiful background of groen. It has its own cinema, ballroom, and magnificent organ and has been described a3 "ono of tho most wonderfully equipped of England's stately homes."

By an electrical arrangement the strains of the organ, which cost thousands, can be heard in any room in tho house by the mere pressure of a switch. There is also a "sun room," used for sleeping in the open. This is a circular room, and has been used for tho convalescence of more than one invalid, among them one or two people recovering from pleurisy, as it is set among pine trees.

Each of the bedrooms jn the iront of the house has its own bathroom and dressing-room as well as a balcony, and from all there is a magnificent sea view. As usually run there are twenty servanta in tho houso, and the kitchens are particularly well arranged, having been modernised in every way only a year or two ago. All tho rooms aro connected with a house telephone. Most of the furniture at Craigwell is good, unostentatious and modern, but there is a very beautiful set of Chippendale chairs in the dining-room, a whole suite furnished with Chinese lacquer and one room completely furnished in the early Victoria manner. The floors are all of paraquet, with very lovely rugs strewn about, and tho finest collection of glass pictures in the Kingdom hangs in the billiard-room.