LORD LEVERHULME'S HOUSE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19235, 26 January 1926, Page 9

LORD LEVERHULME'S HOUSE

SALE TO LORD INVERFORTH. ORIGINAL COST Of- £500,000. The purchase by Lord Inverforth of the H.H, the late Lord Levcrhnlme s famous house at IlnmpstcaJ, was recently announced in London, The Hill was built by Lord Leverhulme at a cost of more than £500,000. It stands iu » magnificent, position on the brow of the Heath, and on a clear day a wonderful view over London to the Surrey Hills can be obtained. The decorations of many of the rooms arc reproductions of different periods; there, is an Adam drawing room, decorated with inset china medallions after Josiah Wedgwood an Elizabethan dining room, and

a Wren music room. \ larpn ballroom after tjio style of the Early Georgian period has a minstrels gallery iu the centre and three marble chimney pieces which are of the Kobe I \dam iieriod, the centre one being a paiticularlv beautiful example. _ Lord" Inveriorth has also acquired _ titt colic' ion of classic statuary, which is a Sure of the gardens The new owuj ~-,o i-pnior partner of Andrew Wen aija I Co.', shipowners, and during the war waj Surveyor General of bu Pi' > . _ Coun- . Office add a member of the Ami : c il. He is at present a director ot ) ißank,