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108 relations: Alnwick Castle, Andrea Palladio, Architect, Artisan, Baron Suffield, Brick, Bricklayer, Bridge, Cambridge House, Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, Chatsworth House, Clerk of works, Cottage, County town, Courtyard, Cumberland House, Dome, Duke of Devonshire, East Anglia, Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk, England, English country house, Euston Hall, Facade, France, Gentry, George III of the United Kingdom, Gervase Jackson-Stops, Giacomo Leoni, Goodwood House, Gothic architecture, Grand Tour, Great Britain, Gunton Hall, Hanworth Hall, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth, Holkham, Holkham Hall, Honingham Hall, Horace Walpole, Howard Colvin, Idealism, Independent contractor, Inigo Jones, James Gibbs, James Paine (architect), John Soane, Kedleston Hall, ..., King's Lynn Minster, Langley Hall, Lenwade, London, Mansion, Mark Girouard, Moor Park, Hertfordshire, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, Naval and Military Club, Neoclassicism, Nigel Nicolson, Norfolk, Norfolk House, Norwich, Norwich Castle, Norwich Cathedral, Nostell Priory, Packington Hall, Palace, Pall Mall, London, Palladian architecture, Park, Pastiche, Patronage, Pavilion, Pediment, Peerage, Petworth House, Piano nobile, Pilaster, Pound sterling, Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, Prototype, Pyramid, Quadrant (architecture), Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, River Wensum, Robert Adam, Shilling, St Augustine's Church, Norwich, St James's Square, State room, Survey of London, Surveying, Syon House, Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation), Tory, Tower, Townhouse, Twickenham, Whigs (British political party), William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, William Kent, William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791), Wilton House, Window, Wortley Hall, Yale University Press. Expand index (58 more) »
Alnwick Castle
Alnwick Castle is a castle and stately home in Alnwick in the English county of Northumberland.
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Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice.
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Architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings.
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Artisan
An artisan (from artisan, artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates things by hand that may be functional or strictly decorative, for example furniture, decorative arts, sculptures, clothing, jewellery, food items, household items and tools or even mechanisms such as the handmade clockwork movement of a watchmaker.
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Baron Suffield
Baron Suffield, of Suffield in the County of Norfolk, is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Great Britain.
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Brick
A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.
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Bricklayer
A bricklayer, which is related to but different from a mason, is a craftsman who lays bricks to construct brickwork.
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Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.
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Cambridge House
Cambridge House is a grade I listed townhouse in central London.
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Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, (25 October 1683 – 6 May 1757) was an Irish and English politician.
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Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (19 August 1710 – 21 August 1763), PC, of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset, Petworth House in Sussex, and of Egremont House in Mayfair, London, was a British statesman who served as Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 1761-63.
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Chatsworth House
Chatsworth House is a stately home in Derbyshire, England, in the Derbyshire Dales north-east of Bakewell and west of Chesterfield.
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Clerk of works
The Clerk of Works (or Clerk of the Works), often abbreviated CoW, is employed by an architect or a client on a construction site.
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Cottage
A cottage is, typically, a small house.
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County town
A county town in Great Britain or Ireland is usually, but not always, the location of administrative or judicial functions within the county.
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Courtyard
A courtyard or court is a circumscribed area, often surrounded by a building or complex, that is open to the sky.
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Cumberland House
Cumberland House was a mansion on the south side of Pall Mall in London, England.
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Dome
Interior view upward to the Byzantine domes and semi-domes of Hagia Sophia. See Commons file for annotations. A dome (from Latin: domus) is an architectural element that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.
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Duke of Devonshire
Duke of Devonshire is a title in the Peerage of England held by members of the Cavendish family.
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East Anglia
East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England.
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Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk
Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk (5 June 1686 – 20 September 1777), Earl Marshal was a British peer and politician.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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English country house
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.
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Euston Hall
Euston Hall is a country house, with park by William Kent and Capability Brown, located in Euston, a small village in Suffolk located just south of Thetford, England.
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Facade
A facade (also façade) is generally one exterior side of a building, usually, but not always, the front.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Gentry
The gentry (genterie; Old French gentil: "high-born") are the "well-born, genteel, and well-bred people" of the social class below the nobility of a society.
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George III of the United Kingdom
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820.
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Gervase Jackson-Stops
Gervase Frank Ashworth Jackson-Stops OBE (b. 26 April 1947 d.2 July 1995, London) was an architectural historian and journalist.
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Giacomo Leoni
Giacomo Leoni (1686 – 8 June 1746), also known as James Leoni, was an Italian architect, born in Venice.
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Goodwood House
Goodwood House is a country house and estate of covering in Westhampnett, Chichester, West Sussex, England.
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages.
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Grand Tour
The term "Grand Tour" refers to the 17th- and 18th-century custom of a traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a chaperon, such as a family member) when they had come of age (about 21 years old).
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
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Gunton Hall
Gunton Hall, Gunton Park, is a large country house near Suffield in Norfolk.
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Hanworth Hall
Hanworth Hall is a large late 17th century country house some 500m to the south of the village of Hanworth, Norfolk, England.
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century.
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Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth
Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth (1708 – 30 January 1784) succeeded to the Baronetcy of Ravensworth Castle, and to the family estates and mining interests, at the age of fifteen, on the death of his grandfather in 1723.
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Holkham
Holkham is a village and civil parish (including Quarles) in the north-west of the county of Norfolk, England.
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Holkham Hall
Holkham Hall is an 18th-century country house located adjacent to the village of Holkham, Norfolk, England.
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Honingham Hall
Honingham Hall was a large country house at Honingham in Norfolk.
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Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.
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Howard Colvin
Sir Howard Montagu Colvin, CVO, CBE, FBA, FRHistS, FSA (15 October 1919 – 27 December 2007) was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 and The History of the King's Works.
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Idealism
In philosophy, idealism is the group of metaphysical philosophies that assert that reality, or reality as humans can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial.
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Independent contractor
An independent contractor is a natural person, business, or corporation that provides goods or services to another entity under terms specified in a contract or within a verbal agreement.
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Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones (15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was the first significant English architect (of Welsh ancestry) in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
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James Gibbs
James Gibbs (23 December 1682 – 5 August 1754) was one of Britain's most influential architects.
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James Paine (architect)
James Paine (1717–1789) was an English architect.
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John Soane
Sir John Soane (né Soan; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style.
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Kedleston Hall
Kedleston Hall is an English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately four miles north-west of Derby, and is the seat of the Curzon family whose name originates in Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy.
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King's Lynn Minster
King's Lynn Minster (St Margaret's) is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in King's Lynn.
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Langley Hall
Langley Hall is a red-brick building in the Palladian style, formerly a country house but now a private school, located near Loddon, Norfolk, England.
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Lenwade
Lenwade is a village in the civil parish of Great Witchingham, Norfolk, situated in the Wensum Valley adjacent to the A1067 road south-east of Fakenham and some north-west of Norwich.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Mansion
A mansion is a large dwelling house.
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Mark Girouard
Mark Girouard (born October 1931) is a British architectural writer, an authority on the country house, an architectural historian, and biographer of James Stirling.
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Moor Park, Hertfordshire
Moor Park is a private residential estate in the Three Rivers District of Hertfordshire, England.
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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.
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Naval and Military Club
The Naval and Military Club, known informally as The In & Out, is a private members club located in St James's Square, London, originally for gentlemen of the British Armed Forces.
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Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.
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Nigel Nicolson
Nigel Nicolson (19 January 1917 – 23 September 2004) was an English writer, publisher and politician.
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Norfolk
Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.
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Norfolk House
Norfolk House, at 31 St James's Square, Westminster, was built in 1722 for Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk.
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Norwich
Norwich (also) is a city on the River Wensum in East Anglia and lies approximately north-east of London.
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Norwich Castle
Norwich Castle is a medieval royal fortification in the city of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk.
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Norwich Cathedral
Norwich Cathedral is an English cathedral located in Norwich, Norfolk, dedicated to the Holy and Undivided Trinity.
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Nostell Priory
Nostell Priory is a Palladian house located in Nostell, near Crofton close to Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, approached by the Doncaster road from Wakefield.
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Packington Hall
Packington Hall is a 17th-century mansion situated at Great Packington, near Meriden, Warwickshire, England the seat of the Earl of Aylesford.
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Palace
A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence, or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.
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Pall Mall, London
Pall Mall is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, Central London.
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Palladian architecture
Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from and inspired by the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580).
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Park
A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats.
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Pastiche
A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.
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Patronage
Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another.
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Pavilion
In architecture, a pavilion (from French pavillon, from Latin papilio) has several meanings.
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Pediment
A pediment is an architectural element found particularly in classical, neoclassical and baroque architecture, and its derivatives, consisting of a gable, usually of a triangular shape, placed above the horizontal structure of the entablature, typically supported by columns.
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Peerage
A peerage is a legal system historically comprising hereditary titles in various countries, comprising various noble ranks.
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Petworth House
Petworth House in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England, is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house, rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin.
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Piano nobile
The piano nobile (Italian, "noble floor" or "noble level", also sometimes referred to by the corresponding French term, bel étage) is the principal floor of a large house, usually built in one of the styles of Classical Renaissance architecture.
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Pilaster
The pilaster is an architectural element in classical architecture used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function.
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Pound sterling
The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.
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Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany
Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, (Edward Augustus;In The London Gazette, the Prince is called simply 'Prince Edward' 25 March 1739 – 17 September 1767) was the younger brother of George III of the United Kingdom and the second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
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Prototype
A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.
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Pyramid
A pyramid (from πυραμίς) is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single point at the top, making the shape roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense.
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Quadrant (architecture)
Quadrant in architecture refers to a curve in a wall or a vaulted ceiling.
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Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, (25 April 1694 – 4 December 1753) was an Anglo-Irish architect and noble often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl".
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River Wensum
The River Wensum is a chalk fed river in Norfolk, England and a tributary of the River Yare despite being the larger of the two rivers.
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Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 1728 – 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer.
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Shilling
The shilling is a unit of currency formerly used in Austria, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, United States, and other British Commonwealth countries.
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St Augustine's Church, Norwich
St Augustine's Church is a redundant Anglican church building in the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England.
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St James's Square
St James's Square is the only square in the exclusive St James's district of the City of Westminster.
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State room
A state room in a large European mansion is usually one of a suite of very grand rooms which were designed to impress.
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Survey of London
The Survey of London is a research project to produce a comprehensive architectural survey of the former County of London.
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Surveying
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.
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Syon House
Syon House, and its 200-acre (80 hectare) park, Syon Park, is in west London, historically within the parish of Isleworth, in the county of Middlesex.
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Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation)
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, KB (17 June 1697–20 April 1759) was an English land-owner and patron of the arts.
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Tory
A Tory is a person who holds a political philosophy, known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved throughout history.
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Tower
A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant margin.
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Townhouse
A townhouse, or town house as used in North America, Asia, Australia, South Africa and parts of Europe, is a type of terraced housing.
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Twickenham
Twickenham is a suburban area and town in Greater London, lying on the River Thames 10.2 miles west-southwest of the centre of London.
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Whigs (British political party)
The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
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William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, (8 May 1720 – 2 October 1764), styled Lord Cavendish before 1729 and Marquess of Hartington between 1729 and 1755, was a British Whig statesman and nobleman who was briefly nominal Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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William Kent
William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century.
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William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791)
William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford. William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (17 March 1722 – 10 March 1791), styled Viscount Wentworth until 1739 was a peer and member of the House of Lords of Great Britain.
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Wilton House
Wilton House is an English country house at Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire.
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Window
A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof or vehicle that allows the passage of light, sound, and air.
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Wortley Hall
Wortley Hall is a stately home in the small South Yorkshire village of Wortley, located south of Barnsley.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.
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