Purbeck House - Swanage

Purbeck House, now a Hotel.   Very interesting house built in 1875 by George Burt  who Thomas Hardy called "the King of Swanage".  A wonderfully odd collection of objects and outbuildings.

Neptune's head [possibly anyway] brought from Hyde Park when Marble Arch was re-modeled  

Prancing Horses - part of a frieze from the Parthenon, below

The Greenhouse, below

The Headless Statues - from the Royal Exchange after it burnt down in 1828. Possibly they are Charles I and II, or maybe Henry V and Edward III. 

Evidence suggests this statue [below] may be of Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange in the reign of Elisabeth I.  The Exchange burnt down in the great fire of London, 1666 and only the Gresham statue is said to have survived. 

The room bells in Purbeck House.  The old and new - note the modern wifi router next to them!