The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-04
EXPENSIVE ENGLISH HOMES
ESTATES THAT 1T TAKES ron
TUNES no MAINTAIN.

Duke % Devenshire's Seven Great Houses
Largest Private House I'm England
-Csst Of kecpiBg Up Bleni,eim Palace.
Duke % Marlborough Country Seat.
Il 10 q pathetic fact that there arc several
men In the United Kingdom who woUIi
consider themselves on the brink OF banlr
rnptoy IL they were reduced. says Lon
don Tit-Bns. by any evil stroke OF fate
to . mere pittanoe OF CT. 900 a week-vho
would and It simply impossible to rub along
anyhsw on the income Of a simple million
sire. which would be barely sufficient In
some ceses to pay the expenses OF the lordly
pleasure houses which they have inherited
from their ancestors.
The Duke Of Devonshire, for example.
has no fewer than seven OF these stately
homes Elk In England and one in Ireland
each OF them ht for the reception OF a king
and not ono OF which. a. he confessed the
other day. he has yet lived in long enough
to explore thoroughly. Probably he himself
does not know within eI, 900 how much
these palatial homes cost yearly TO maintain.
but the annual cost has been said to make
u very big hole In Ii0O. 900.
In Wentworth Woodhouse. which ia only
one Of his four palaces. Lord Fitzwilliam
owns the largest private house in England.
IL has q frontage Of 900 feet. its hall 10 30
enormous that four suburban villas could
he built inside IL. and its owner could 1.-Two
In = different room every day for six weeks
and still Leave several rooms unseen. The
Duk Of Portland owns five regal homes
In England and Scotland, the value OF which
rum Into millions. and which. with the
attached gardens and estates, keep hun
dreds Of servants employed. At Welbeck
no has over thirty acres OF kitchen gar
dens alone: In the glass houses and garden
proper he employs about seventy men and
boys. and his horticultural bill for this one
house 10 said to exceed Q 1000 a year.
Bienheim Palace, the Duke OF MARI
borough's Oxford scat, ID 90 colossal that
the late Duke used to declare he spent ESQ
. year on putty alone for his window panes.
Il actually cost c3O0.0 900 to build, In days
when money was more valuable than IT, 10
to-day: II 10 94s feet long, has fifteen stair
cases, and when IL was repaired some time
ago his Grace found 1t necessary to sell his
pictures and books to pay the cost. which
amounts TO more than &300 900.
The Duke Of Northumberland owns
ave stately seats. at one alone Of which
Syon House, Brentford-a star OF thirty
or forty men 10 kept busy. largely In the
nssnidosnt kitchen garden and fruit
q ANAL portion Of the year in this princely
home. the rental value of which probably
exceeds the Lord ChanceIlor's official In
come.
-~-IAe-.M apanesa-af Butte has I've seats
In England. Scotland and Wales. and one
OF them, Mountstuart, Rothesay. covers
an acre OF ground, has $50 rooms and has
actually cost over e. 900 900. representing,
even at a modest 4 per cent, a value OF ESQ.,
600 a year. One can easily understand
that his lordship's income Of f23O,Ooo a
year Is not a penny too much for the do
mands Of il.
or Lord ~Londonderry's four seats, Wynn
yard Park (Stockton-on-Tees) Ia 100 yards
long, and boasts a sculpture gallery 100
feet long and So feet high. while Goodwood.
one OF the Duke Of Richmond's four man
sions. measures, with it's two wings. 37s
feet. and requires about sixty domestics
to keep II In order.
Castle Howard, the splendid Yorkshire
seat Of Lord Carlisle. has l25 rooms: Raby
Castle stands on two acres; Stafford House.
the town residence OF the Duke OF Suther-
land. gives employment to some sixty
servants and costs about 10000 a year
to keep going. and Eaton Hall cost over
Ei ,000. 900 to build.
Such are but a few OF the stately homes
Of England some Of which are not seen
by their lordly owners for more than a few
weeks. II at all. in a year. although each
Of them costs mar thousands a year 20
maintain.
II is said that there are at least sixty
country houses In the United Kingdom
which require q STAFF OF from $50 TO 500
Y htt ~ u1NOiNc I'll litlud Ohi tpl
wages ranging up to f20, 900. and in many
OF them the gardens alone account for
moro than eS. 900 a year. How large are
the numbers OF servants employed In con-
nection with these houses and estates is
shown by the following example-that OF
a relatively modest establishment in Suf-
folk. The total number of servants en-
ployed ID i7s. and OF 'thes the- home farm
and stables require ffty-four and the gar
dens forty; indoor servants humble seven
SAAn kAspar~ and niuhf man oswtoan. tho
parks and lakes employ ten, tho brick kilns
nine. while there are seven carpenters, four
bricklayers. four ~warroners. three lodge
keepers, three painters and half a dozen
This, IL should b. remembered, lie but a
second class establishment. although Its
wages bill reaches &c. 900 a year. or still
smaller establishments there are about 900
in the United Kingdom employing. between
nifty n q hundred servants with wages
bills averaging at least $4,000.
Expensive a. country seats are to main
tain, with q few exceptions such as those
mentioned they are little more costly than
town houses. For a tiny house in Park
London suburb for 600 a year, a rental
OF 60 900 IL asked, while some Of the larger
houses command . rent running into five
figures. In O~rosvenor Square the rents
range from 81 100 TO $4,000 a year, In st.
James's Square you may pay as much as
an annual SIC. 600; Goo 900 has been paid
for q house in Carlton House Terrace, and
Lord Burton gave El5O, 900 for q house In
South Audley street.
~And town apd country houses are but
q part Of the expenditure Of thu wealthy
class We arc considering. A yacht
may easily run away with ES,000 q year;
. similar sum Is by no means unoommo
for q grouse moor and a deer forest ; a
London season. with its costly entertain
rnents, may. easily account FOR Ei0,0OO,
and 80 IN through the long list bf items
which figure In the annual balance sheet
necessary to them as his tobacco TO q poor
10 II in thus not difficult to SEQ how
an income Of even Gl00, 900 or E200,0 900 may
be dissipated, and how aghast many "A
man would be II he were suddenly brought
face to face with the necessity Of cutting
down his expenditure TO a pitiful E50,0O
a year.