Inside a 1000 year old English Castle's HUGE RENOVATION Project (YOU MUST SEE!) | Berkeley Castle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2023
- In this historic house episode of American Viscountess, I explore the renovation and redevelopment projects on the Berkeley Estate in Gloucestershire. Dominating the landscape in the deer park is the most spectacular folly which dates back to 1805 when the 5th Earl of Berkeley was in residence at the Castle. Now, Charles Berkeley is renovating the building for twenty-first century living - turning the folly into a property to let - and certainly one with a view!
Also, during my visit I see the start of the redevelopment of the late eighteenth century kitchen garden - which, when it’s finished will serve the local community and visitors to the castle.
Please join me as I visit this most spectacular Castle and estate close to the border with England and Wales. For more information about Berkeley Castle: www.berkeley-castle.com/
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Would love for you to do a follow up when this is completed!
I remembered the Barkley name in my family chart. So I double checked. Hello cousins!
Thomas de Berkeley was my 19th Great Grandfather and I love the story about him and my 20th Great Grandfather Roger Mortimer and King Edward II! An amazing story! Bad for the King, though! Looking forward to learning more about this beautiful castle Thomas and his family lived in!
That is incredibly amazing Mad respect
How wonderful that you are a descendent!!
I am related in the same period!
Thomas born 1293?
I wonder how many cousins there are? Way too many I would think!
What a beautiful castle and foley which will be fantastic when restored. They have lots of plans to help the castle make money. Thank you so much for sharing.
They must keep us updated on when it will be ready to let. I will book it straight away!
Julie, you look especially beautiful in that lovely rose-colored dress!
I love kitchen gardens, and they are needed more now than ever as food shortages spread around the world. Now, this kitchen garden offers tremendous opportunities for featuring estate-grown foods in the cafe, sponsoring a farmer's market, gifts from the kitchen for Christmas & other holidays. E.g. I love the idea of apricot trees as apricot jam is my #1 fave! Apricot jam to serve in the cafe, jars to sell in the gift shop, apricot danish & apricot cake on the cafe menu. Kitchen gardens used to feed family & staff, now they serve the community and visitors. Can't wait for you to return, Julie, and show us all the creativity and wonderous produce from the new kitchen garden! Very exciting project!
I love castles... so much history...
Such a beautiful property, folly and castle 🏰. Love the idea of kitchen garden and running a farmer’s market ❤❤❤❤❤
The head gardener has a good sense of humour
I hope you will be able to revisit this castle to see how all of these plans work out. I love these visits, there is such stories attached to these spectacular castles and country houses. Thanks Julie!
One of my favorite videos of your channel. You look great and appear to be so enjoying this episode yourself.
Glad you enjoy it!
Dearest, you do SUCH a fabulous job showing us these amazing, beautiful Historical castle’s and other buildings ❤. They are amazing and SO ARE YOU 💕🙏🙏. I would like to ask, with Castle’s/Estate’s this enormous size, and the way everything has changed over the Centuries, who lives in ALL these HUGE SPACED CASTLES?? I just can’t imagine the cost of heating and maintenance for just the inside of the homes/Castle. WOW 😮
Most of them here are open to the public to look round and for weddings that’s how they make money for the upkeep 🏴🌹
Super video Julie, how incredible. The folly was so cool. It's great to see what a hunting lodge is having been introduced to them in Regency romances (what a confession!) The gardens are so beautiful. I hope you go back once the kitchen gardens, and the restaurant are completed. Like @collnss I can see the wheels turning.
I love seeing the upturned clay pots on the garden posts, but wonder why?
Amazing…..what a project they have going on! Will be wonderful for the surrounding area as well. 👍🥰
I especially loved the folly. I can see so much potential in it. I’d love to live there!❤️
oh what a gorgeous folly please show it to us when it is finished - how wonderful they are going to put it to good use!
Always an awesome video, and they were such pleasant people! Beautiful color of the dress on you, Julie!
Splendid castle, splendid, beautiful outfits, Julie. I absolutely love your taste and style. Fascinating information about follies. I've never heard of them.
Hi all!
Hello from Perth Western Australia 🇦🇺🌏. ❤️ castles
Thanks for taking us to Berkeley, a castle with a terrible story regarding Edward II. The plans for the folly and garden are so good, giving them “future lives”. I always question when town planners suggest knocking down old buildings. We have such an historic heritage in our built environment in Britain, it should be preserved wherever possible. It represents the familiar look of places and a great deal of investment in materials and labour. I think these castles and stately homes are creating good examples of how things can be repurposed to make them useful for people to enjoy in the present day. Developers could learn a lot from them.
So impressed with the garden. ♡
A very good production, Julie, editors and staff. Looking forward to the return visit when the new building is up and running!
Another wonderful episode. Thank you so much from New Zealand. I would never have the opportunity to see the inner workings of such incredible historical monuments without your wonderful endeavors.
WOW! That was am AMAZING journey to explore! Thanks for the share! Enjoyed that! Bravo Julie, Luke and Crew! 💙🌿🩷
STUNNING place. Thank you so much👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Very enjoyable video. Your wheels were turning in your brain about the pond! Hmm
It’s amazing to me in the USA a structure built in the early 1800s is considered quite old. I learned about follies today. Thank you.
I love the plans for the garden.
I want a Julie jumper vest!
Wonderful video, so inspirational. And that color is beautiful on you, the fusia pink, love it!
One of my many ancestral homes. Not the folly! LOL. ❤ Thank you so much for this.
👏💖 You look beautiful in your dress❣️ I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of this video! Thank you ❤❤
Great visit to Berkeley Castle! Thank you!
Wonderful Historical building!
Wow! I love the dress today!!!❤
Watching you right now in US on “Secrets of the Royal Palaces”!😊
So cool!
Beautiful work
Beautiful castle
lovely video and project
Thank you! 😊
These videos are so good 🎉
I watch a lot of shows where historical buildings in the UK and Chateau in France are being renovated. I am often disappointed that the renovations do not seem to include access for disabled persons. Many of them have turrets, which I think might accommodate elevators. Not only for vistitors, but for people who live in them as they get older and cannot manage the stairs. Just wondering if anyone knows why? I would be more than happy to pay to stay in a castle or Chateau, but can't because I couldn't manage all of the stairs.
Late reply. Since they are protected buildings, whenever you do the smallest renovation it has to be approved by whatever local historical committee is in that area/country (I know how it works in Ireland but the UK's system seems much more elaborate. Sometimes the smallest thing as removing a tiny wall can sometimes be a big deal. Also I don't think you could put an elevator where you are suggesting without destroying the tower. Then figuring out all the mechanics, where to put the machinery and wiring and electricity. Usually even adding heating into these historical places needs to be done creatively, and the stairs are almost always too steep to ever even consider putting a ramp anywhere. At the end of the day, owners of historical homes don't need to comply with a lot of modern government standards by law and are doing this for money and the idea of even doing this is a financial and preservation nightmare.
That being said, I agree more access for disability needs to be added but I'd imagine it would need to be done either by constructing something new on the outside or depending on the layout using creative solutions. The sad fact is that many governments are doing everything they can to keep all these properties from falling into ruin. Just too expensive. If the government offered grants specifically for that purpose that would be great. At the end of the day though, many times it's just not either feasible or possible I imagine for many home owners/trusts.
@@felixthecat580 Thanks for your reply. I guess nothing is easy.
A loo with a view
Hi Julie
Berkeley is amazing! ❤
That Folly would be perfect for a Buddhist retreat of just a few people if you could provide grocery runs and if you are planning to put in a little kitchen with bathrooms/showers. Perfect for a three or four month long Vajrasattva 100 syllable mantra retreat!
Fantastic!!!
I would like to see what it looks like now
Hi Julie!
Weren't parts of the castle used in Downtown Abbey's final season? Looks so familiar.
It’s beautiful! I hope it gets new lighting those 1980s sconces are so horribly dated
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Monica from Friends ( Courtney cox ) who do think you are US. Was there I plan on going in. Spring 2024
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