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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Britain under the microscope.欢迎回来【闲话英伦】Hi, 安澜。

Hi, Lulu. Hi, everyone.

Now let's use a magnifying glass and go into these stately homes or manor houses and look at the rooms and also look at the servants.

Absolutely.

So, what is a typical country house? All that I know it’s huge.

Yes.

There will be lots of bedrooms. There will probably be a drawing room.

Hang on a minute. I always wondered this, what is a drawing room? It's not for people to actually draw there.

No, no. In ordinary houses, it's like a living room. But a drawing room is probably a little bit more formal, so you'd have living rooms or drawing rooms. So, some would be for guests, some would just be for the family themselves.

I don't know if I remember this correctly, when I first visited Buckingham Palace, there's a drawing room there.

Yeah.

So that is a very typical thing for those huge like palaces or huge houses.

Exactly. So you have different types of drawing rooms. So, some were more formal, some were a little bit less formal.

But it's the living space.

It's the living space.

就跟我们的客厅一样, 只不过是 much much bigger.

Yeah. In big houses, in the UK now, you might see we don't call them drawing rooms anymore, but you might see there's like a guest living room where if people come to visit your home, you might entertain them in there.

But normally at the back or in another room, there’s a room where you would spend time just as a family.

I see. I see. I'm sure there's like the normal the usual dining room.

Dining room, libraries, studies, a gallery for art as well.

Yes, because they would collect pieces, wouldn’t they?

Yeah. Of course, there will be servant quarters as well.

Servant quarters which is usually the downstairs part.

Yeah. It's the bedrooms for the servants.

Umm, 就这种upstairs, downstairs.

Exactly.

我们之前聊到过的就是在英国那种老的大宅子里面, 等级森严的, 有所谓的楼上楼下upstairs, downstairs, upstairs for the lord and lady.

And downstairs for the servants. Apart from that there would normally be huge gardens, land for farming, as well as conservatories and something called an orangery.

Actually, just put orangery aside, which is a word I've never heard until this topic. Even conservatories, I think it's difficult for a lot of people to understand, or I don't think they've heard about this before. I only got to know the word conservatory when I was looking at the house listing, the real estate listings in the UK. Conservatory, 如果你是在英国租房或者买房的话, 你就会经常看到这个词, 就what is a conservatory?

A conservatory is almost like a type of greenhouse. It's a room that is part of the garden. So, it's normally mostly glass. People would have plants in there, people would sit in there, particularly if it's not a very nice day. So it's like being in the garden, but without being cold and wet.

所以就有点像半温室, 但有点半阳光房的那种感觉。

There are places for people who sit and enjoy the garden。

Exactly, when it's a bit too cold to enjoy the garden.

Yeah. What is an orangery? Is not a place just for oranges, is it?

It is.

Okay.

Well. Oranges and lemons. So, you have to think in the 17th 18th century oranges, pineapples, lemons were incredibly expensive. So some rich people, what they used to do was create an orangery. So, they could grow this type of fruit that comes from Italy and other hotter places.

So they need a greenhouse for that sort of thing.

Yeah. Exactly. And it used to be part of the decoration.

Interesting, little bit of the tropical paradise that you guys were like aspiring to have.

Exactly. You have to think that most of these rich people, they would travel to Italy and France when they were young, and they used to bring things back.

Yeah, I can totally see the charm of that. So that's about the anatomy of the house itself.

Now let's talk about the servant quarter....