ABSTRACT

This paper is a further exploration of the phenomenon of historic country houses repurposed as private schools. In a previous paper it was shown that 55 English private schools within the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference and the Girls’ Schools Association are partially housed within former country houses. This paper investigates some of the possible motivations for schools choosing to occupy such redundant country houses. There are a number of obvious reasons, such as their availability at low cost with appropriate facilities that could be readily used by the schools, but in some cases, it was found that the country house’s historic associations with arts, culture, and learning were a particular motivation for repurposing into schools.

摘要

本文进一步探讨了将历史悠久的乡间别墅改造成私立学校的现象。在之前的一篇论文中显示，校长和女校长会议和女子学校协会内的 55 所英国私立学校部分位于以前的乡间别墅内。本文调查了学校选择占用这些多余的乡间别墅的一些可能动机。有许多明显的原因，例如它们以低廉的价格提供学校可以随时使用的适当设施，但在某些情况下，人们发现乡间别墅与艺术、文化和学习的历史联系是重新用于学校的特殊动机。