Illustrations
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The following illustrations seek to show stately homes at their maximum expanses, in approximate descending order of size:
Portrait | Name | County; Date of design; Patron |
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Chatsworth House |
Derbyshire; 1687; William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire |
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Blenheim Palace | Oxfordshire; 1705; Queen Anne for John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough | |
Longleat House | Wiltshire; c.1570; Sir John Thynne (d.1580) | |
Castle Howard | N. Yorkshire; 1699; Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle | |
Wentworth Woodhouse | S. Yorkshire; 1723; Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham | |
Kedleston Hall | Derbyshire; 1759; Sir Nathaniel Curzon (later 1st Baron Scarsdale) | |
Wilton House | Wiltshire; 1630; Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke | |
Petworth House | West Sussex; 1688; Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset. (Altered in 1870's) | |
Holkham Hall | Norfolk; 1732; Thomas Coke, later 1st Earl of Leicester(d.1759) | |
Woburn Abbey | Bedfordshire; 1744; John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford | |
Seaton Delaval Hall | Northumberland; 1718; Admiral George Delaval |
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