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Description: | The original hall-house dates from about 1500, with later alterations and additions. The print shows the rear of the house as it would have been known to Gilbert White. Seen are the solar wing with casements (probably pre-1700), the stairs turret, the Great Parlour built by White in 1777, with its two large sash windows, and the hall with its roof oversailing the outshot.
Rev Gilbert White (1720-1793) was a pioneer naturalist. He was not born at The Wakes, but at the old Selborne vicarage. The family moved to The Wakes in 1729 or shortly afterwards, and remained there until 1844.
The house, now much enlarged, holds the Oates Memorial Library and Museum together with the Gilbert White Museum, both opened in 1955.
Reference:
Meirion-Jones, Gwyn I, The Wakes, Selborne: an architectural study. Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, 39, 1983, p. 145-169. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | building The Wakes Oates Memorial Library and Museum Gilbert White Museum Gilbert White house | Temporal: | start=1793-01-01; end=1813-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | W Tallis | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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