Bailrigg House

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Le château en bref

Bailrigg House stands on the campus of Lancaster University, at Bailrigg, south of the city. It is not a castle but a large mansion built at the turn of the 20th century for the Storey family, Lancaster industrialists, at the centre of a landscaped estate designed in the manner of an Edwardian county seat. The two-storey building illustrates the Arts and Crafts movement: multiple roofs, gables and dormers, timber-framed upper floors, Tudor-inspired chimneys and stone gargoyles on the garden side. Its main interest lies in the quality of its interiors, which remain almost intact: oak panelling, original fireplaces, terrazzo flooring, a richly carved open-well staircase and a billiard room with a ceiling decorated with the signs of the zodiac. The Bailrigg estate was chosen in the early 1960s to host the new university; the house, listed Grade II since 2005, now contains offices.