Queen Mary's Dolls' House: detail and section of a glazed door and surround

NOTES: Alterations to Melbury House, which dated from the mid-sixteenth century, were carried out by Devey for Henry Edward Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester. The house had already been remodelled in the late seventeenth century, and in 1872 by Anthony Salvin. Devey's additions, in Tudor style to match the original building, doubled the size of the house. He built a new range for the offices terminating in a square tower with an octagonal stair turret at one of the corners. He also added a new gateway to the kitchen courtyard and designed a little dairy which was not built.

NOTES: The dolls' house was conceived both as a gift from the British nation to Queen Mary and as an historical record of the ideal early 20th century English house. Princess Marie Louise commissioned Lutyens to design the house and together with the involvement of Sir Henry Morgan and a huge range of well-known manufacturers, it became a showcase for 1920s British craftsmanship and design. The house first went on display at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924.