11/12/2021

The Manse

I have been thinking about the manse in Bourton on the Water. The current manse hotel says that it has 15 rooms available, all en suite and none on the ground floor. Looking at the manse one can see five large windows at the front and five windows in the roof. If there has been no structural change I guessed that there were ten on the upper floor (five at the front and five at the back) with five in the roof but then I saw that at least one double room has two windows so it must be more complicated. There are certainly windows on the back roof so may be it is something like eight and seven rather than ten and five. Another factor here is that there may be an extension at the back. My thought, however, is that the Beddomes had 7-15 bedrooms available to them above the ground floor. If Mr and Mrs Beddome had the master bedroom and they had one or two for servants at the top and a guest bedroom and a nursery that would leave at least 2-10 bedrooms for kids, of which there were plenty. I am assuming at least five rooms downstairs - a kitchen, a scullery, a dining room, a living room and a library and study. Lots of speculation and not much by way of hard facts then.

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