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18th century Abbey Adam Adam's Albury altered ARBURY HALL architect architecture baroque beautiful bought building built Burghley Capability Brown carved Castle Howard ceiling Charles Chatsworth chimney-pieces classical collection Compton Wynyates country houses Court courtyard decoration descendant designed dining-room DRAWING-ROOM Duke EAST FRONT Elizabethan England English ENTRANCE FRONT entrance hall exterior family portraits Firle Place forecourt furniture garden gatehouse Georgian Gothic Haddon Hall Hardwick Holkham Inigo Jones interior Italian Jacobean James Wyatt Kent landscape late Legh long gallery Longleat magnificent manor house mansion medieval National Trust Northumberland notable original owner paintings Palace Palladian panelling Park Penshurst Penshurst Place Petworth House picturesque plaster plasterwork present Queen rebuilt redecorated Renaissance restored Robert romantic SALOON sculpture Sir John Sir Thomas Somerset SOUTH FRONT staircase Stourhead style survives Sussex Syon tapestries tower tradition Tudor Vanbrugh wainscot Wallington Hall walls Warwick Warwickshire WEST FRONT Wilton Wiltshire wings Wollaton Wren Yorkshire