The Lost Music Hall is a restored early-20th‑century music room and Italianate extension of the Great Ambrook estate near Ipplepen, close to Totnes in the South Hams, Devon. It is a large Arts and Crafts–influenced country house wing that has been converted into a luxury self‑catering stay and small wedding venue, sleeping around a dozen guests.
The hall was added to the original Georgian manor in the early 1900s by Arthur Graham, a London aesthete who retreated to Devon but clearly designed the place for serious entertaining.Designed by local architect T. H. Lyon, it was originally a vast, single‑height, chapel‑like space with a vaulted ceiling and gallery, built partly to house an enormous organ specially made and shipped from New York. Later the space was subdivided.
The current owners have revived its original musical purpose by hosting folk concerts and chamber music events with audiences of over a hundred, reconnecting the building with its performance past.
Interesting facts...
Arthur Graham, a London aesthete described as a “London dandy” who built it as a private retreat from society at the turn of the 20th century, yet simultaneously designed it for lavish entertaining, which gives it a double life: hermit’s refuge and party palace. A complex fellow...
Architectural Illustration: The Lost Music Hall, Totnes.South Hams, Devon.
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