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Abbey Adam's arches architect architecture balustrade Bedingfeld bedrooms Belton Bess of Hardwick Blenheim Blickling BLICKLING HALL brick building built Capability Brown Castle Howard ceiling central centre chapel Chatsworth classical colour columns Compton Wynyates corner corridors court courtyard decoration dome door Drawing Room drawing-room Duke Earl east front Easton Neston eighteenth century Elizabethan English entrance front façade fireplace floor forecourt furniture gables garden front Haddon hall Hardwick Hatfield Hawksmoor Henry Heveningham huge Inigo Jones interior Jacobean Kedleston Knole later Long Gallery Longleat looking Lord manor mediaeval Mereworth moat Mompesson Mompesson House Montacute opposite top original Oxburgh painted palace Palladian panelling park Pavilion pilasters porch portico portrait rebuild Robert Adam roof round Saloon side south front Speke Hall St Michael's Mount staircase stone storey style Sulgrave Syon tapestries terraces Thomas tower Tudor turrets Uppark Vanbrugh walls west front Weston whole William Wilton wing Wren Wyatt