Upton House

The house goes back a few centuries but is best known for its twentieth-century owners, Lords and Ladies Bearsted, aka Shell Oil, who enlarged and renovated, re-did the gardens, and bought some art.

Upton House, garden side

A number of nice small Steens in the long gallery

And an obligatory Canaletto

Sir Josh Reynolds' Lord and Lady Ely

In the big bedroom, 1920s home entertainment center

And here, and the next few, the trademark of
this house, the art deco bath, done in aluminum
leaf...

Yes,aluminum leaf

More precious aluminum leaf

Art deco toilet?

I guess it was in the contract that Shell Oil be glorified in
the displays

Elder Breughel's Dormition of Mary; barely recognizable as
a Breughel

A teeniny El Greco

And a Bosch Adoration, amply authenticated, but hardly
comparable to the similar one in the Prado

Vicki scrutinizes the Bosch, just to be sure

The garden is basically in a canyon, England's largest HaHa,
but is pleasant to look at

The family live in a "modern" mansion next door and raise
racing horses; above, an aristocratic horse sneers our way

The gardens from on low