| Description | Records of the Dartington Hall estate and the Estate Department. Includes early correspondence with land agent John Bowden of Ellis, Son and Bowden of Exeter, Surveyors. Estate stewards' letters and reports to the Trustees; architects' records including those of Rex Gardner; Robert Hening; Walter Gropius; Ides van der Gracht of Delano and Aldrich; Louis de Soissons; Henry Wright; Oswald P Milne; and William Lescaze. Also includes design and construction records for the Lescaze building, Warren House. In addition there are company records of Redworth Estates Ltd (1934 to 1951); insurance inventories and property valuations; lists of real property; records of properties owned by The Dartington Hall Trust; records of the Dartington Post War Housing Competition, 1944-1945; Dartington Hall estate ecology and conservation records; and records of early rural electrification and water utility services established to serve the Dartington estate; and meteorological observations for Rattery, Dartington, and Torquay dating between 1930 and 1977. Includes local planning and development records, including those of Dame Elizabeth Chesterton. |