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Architecture designed for recreation – for sport, for the visual and performing arts (including film and cinema) and other forms of public recreation and entertainment – is sparsely represented among the National Trust’s holdings. Many early features such as small museums and animal dwellings, which evolved to become part of the public architectural tradition, are however present on private estates. There are also numerous buildings designed for the pursuit of field sports. Examples of this category include:

  • buildings for animals

  • museums, panoramas

  • artists studios

  • theatres

  • hunting and fishing lodges


One notable holding is the The Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - a rare surviving Georgian playhouse, which is still in use today.


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Adam Fishing House, Kedleston.

An Angling Party by Edward Smith, Wimpole.
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Statue of Diana, Polesden Lacey.

Lodge Park, Lambert.
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Shooting lodge, Brimham House.

A Tudor hunting lodge, Newark Park, Gloucestershire.
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see also

relevant properties
Berrington Hall
Chartwell
Kedleston Hall
Kingston Lacy
Lodge Park
Lyme Park
Polesden Lacey
Smallhythe Place
Theatre Royal
Wimpole Hall, Garden, Park & Home Farm
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Brimham Rocks
Hatfield Forest
King John's Hunting Lodge
Longshaw Estate
Newark Park
Watersmeet House