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Two rooms in 360°
A pilot with two spherical photographs taken in June 2024: the entry hall and the library. Press Start to load the viewer (about 1 MB per room); drag or use the arrow keys to look around; use the room list to move. Everything you can learn here is also written below, so nothing depends on the viewer working.
Current room: The entry hall. Looking around does not move you; use the room list or the arrows in the picture to change rooms. No sound.
Viewer: Pannellum (open source, MIT licence), self-hosted. No tracking, no sound, no automatic rotation. If the viewer fails in your browser, the photographs and text below cover the same rooms.
The same rooms, in words and stills
1. The entry hall
The front door opens under the porte-cochère into this hall: oak panelling, a carved fireplace, and a floor of Minton encaustic tile — the English patterned tile of the Victorian age. The 1981 survey names the oak interior and the Minton floors as defining features, and they survived the house’s years as apartments and as a rest home.[sources]
2. The library
A panelled room off the hall, now the library and music room. No record says which of the house’s nineteenth-century households used it for what; the furniture and objects in the panorama are today’s. The 360° photograph was taken on 2 June 2024.
What a full tour would need
This pilot proves the pipeline — spherical originals, web derivatives, a self-hosted viewer that loads on demand, and a text alternative. A six-stop tour (arrival, porte-cochère, hall, library, dining room, lawn) needs four more spherical captures, taken level at a consistent height with the rooms cleared of personal items, plus a short written story for each. The capture list is in the project notes; the viewer is ready for them.