Country house improvements count in a Carlisle saleroom
Modestly estimated at just £100-150 in a recent Carlisle sale, an 18th century manuscript notebook offering ‘An Account of the Improvements in the Gardens & Park at Cannonhall’ proved a major attraction.
Bid to £3200 in a Thomson Roddick (17.5% buyer’s premium) auction of January 22, the morocco-bound…