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Stourhead floor plan.
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When stourhead first opened in the 1740s a magazine described it as a living work of art.
The house was designed by colen campbell but henry hoare i unfortunately died the same year in which the house was completed.
Stourhead is reason enough to visit england all by itself.
Belton house belton grantham main ground and first floor plans annotated.
The stourhead park was created in a luxuriant valley which flitcroft made into a lake with a path around it that provided a sequence of picturesque views and encounters with temples statuary springs and.
Stourhead was one of the first country villas to be built in the new palladian style.
Architect colen campbell was hired to design the plans for stourhead and utilized the help of nathaniel ireson to build the structure between 1721 and 1725 in the new palladian style.
Much of stourhead s success can be accounted for by henry hoare ii who inherited the house after the death of his father henry hoare i.
It is one of the best examples of the english landscape style of garden.
Print engraving two floor plans stourhead wiltshire by hendrick hulsberg amsterdam london 1729.
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Address stourhead estate office stourton nr warminster wiltshire england ba12 6qd.
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Stourhead garden commentary stourhead was the perfect realization of the eighteenth century yearning for a vergilian and claudian arcady.
A brilliant arcadian design begun by henry hoare in 1741 incorporating ever changing vistas around a lake replete with temples to apollo and flora a rock bridge a cascade a pantheon a thatched cottage and a grotto.
Originally referred to as the temple of hercules.
The estate is about 2 1 2 miles 4 km northwest of the town of mere and includes a grade i listed 18th century palladian mansion the village of stourton gardens farmland and woodland.
41 vol 3 showing two floor plans ca.
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Left hand plan principal storey of stourhead in wiltshire as designed by mr.
Stourhead ˈ s t aʊər ˌ h ɛ d is a 1 072 hectare 2 650 acre estate at the source of the river stour in the southwest of the english county of wiltshire extending into somerset.
