HISTORY LOCAL NEWS
Inspiring
Kelmarsh Laura Malpas explores the history and enjoys the interior design of this delightful historic Northamptonshire home.
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o you ever play this game when visiting one of Northamptonshire’s wonderful historic country houses? The one that starts ‘if this was my house, how I would redecorate it’? Kelmarsh Hall has a long tradition of inspiring design, and this year is no exception. There are newly opened rooms upstairs, a gentleman’s suite with a perfectly comfortable ‘man cave’ for gaming (not exactly Xbox, more cards, cribbage and chess!) And a
new collaboration with a modern interior design company who have re-imagined the boudoir for the lady of the house. The game, done for real! Like so many places in Northamptonshire, its history goes back a long, long way. The surrounding landscape bears traces of Roman, Saxon and Medieval settlements. The name Kelmarsh has a Saxon origin describing poles cegel, marking a marshy area mersc, reflecting its proximity to the river Ise, and the settlement is mentioned in the Domesday book of 1086.
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