Photograph of Longwood House, Owslebury
Taken about 1870
Longwood House, about five miles south-east of Winchester, was the seat of the Earl of Northesk, his father (who had been third in command at the Battle of Trafalgar) having married the heiress to the estate. The family's Scottish title was Baron Rosehill, and for a time the house was known as 'Rosehill'. The image shows a typically busy Victorian interior with a multiplicity of patterns as well as books, ceramics and paintings.
In 1880 a new house was built at Longwood in Elizabethan style, and it was here that the Duke and Duchess of York and their daughters were entertained at weekend shooting parties in the 1920s and '30s.
The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer William Savage (1817-87) and is found in an album of his work.
