Charleston Farmhouse

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Charleston Farmhouse is a historic country house in East Sussex, England, famed as the rural home, studio, and social hub of key Bloomsbury Group artists and writers.


Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf art museum
country house
historic house
writers' house museum
architecturalStyle traditional Sussex farmhouse
associatedWith Bloomsbury Group
Clive Bell
Duncan Grant
E. M. Forster
John Maynard Keynes
Lytton Strachey
Roger Fry
Vanessa Bell
Virginia Woolf
country England
culturalSignificance centre of Bloomsbury Group country life
important site in British modernism
gardenStyle Arts and Crafts garden
hasCollection works by Duncan Grant
works by Vanessa Bell
hasFunction cultural centre
education centre
exhibition venue
museum
hasGarden walled garden
hasInteriorStyle Bloomsbury decorative style
heritageDesignation Grade II* listed building
heritageRegister National Heritage List for England
hosts art exhibitions
festivals
literary events
locatedIn East Sussex
South Downs
locatedNear Firle
Lewes
notableFor decorated furniture
hand-painted interiors
modernist and post-impressionist art collection
notablePeriod World War I era
occupiedBy Duncan Grant
Vanessa Bell
openToPublic yes
operatedBy Charleston Trust
ownedBy Vanessa Bell
periodOfSignificance early 20th century
region South East England
usedAs artists' studio
rural home
social hub

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Duncan Grant
Vanessa Bell
residence
Bloomsbury Group
associatedWith
Duncan Grant ("Decorations at Charleston Farmhouse")
notableWork
Duncan Grant
workLocation

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