Country houses

NOTES: Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, refronted the existing Chiswick House and designed and built the adjoining villa to display his art collection and entertain friends in 1727-1729. He was inspired on his grand tour by Palladio's Villa Capra 'La Rotonda' near Vicenza.

NOTES: Daniel Garrett was commissioned to complete the Mausoleum on Hawksmoor's death in 1736.

NOTES: Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, refronted the existing Chiswick House and designed and built the adjoining villa to display his art collection and entertain friends in 1727-1729. He was inspired on his grand tour by Palladio's Villa Capra 'La Rotonda' near Vicenza.

NOTES: The house was a 17th century tithe barn from Worcestershire, moved and converted into a house.

NOTES: This moated manor house is an exemplar of the timber-framed Tudor black-and-white house. The earliest part of the Hall was probably built by Richard de Moreton in the mid 15th century. The west, or kitchen end was built (or rebuilt) by William Moreton c.1480. The last major extension was the south wing added in 1570-1580. The 'domestic block' was added to the south wing in the early 1600s.

SOURCE: John Rutter. Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey ([London]: published by the author, Shaftesbury. London: by Charles Knight and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Robinson, and Co.; Hurst, Robinson, and Co.; John and Arthur Arch, 1823), plate 12

SOURCE: William Angus. The seats of the nobility and gentry, in Great Britain and Wales in a collection of select views (London, 1787[-1815]), plate 50 NOTES: This house, built by Alderman Beckford, was replaced by his son's Gothic Revival Fonthill Abbey.