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Cliveden (pronounced / ˈ k l ɪ v d ən /) is an English country house and estate in the care of the National Trust in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire. The Italianate mansion, also known as Cliveden House, crowns an outlying ridge of the Chiltern Hills close to the South Bucks villages of Burnham and Taplow .
Traces of the history of the Cliveden property and its occupants can be found throughout the five-acre (two-hectare) woody landscape. The Cliveden grounds are open for the community to enjoy as a public park from Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, weather permitting. The property includes four buildings, the Main House, Kitchen Dependency, Wash ...
Cliveden Mansions consists of two main portions, the 1888–89 house fronting Gregory Terrace, and the 1915 boarding house extension to the rear. [1] The 1888–89 section of Cliveden Mansions is a two-storey rendered brick building, featuring timber-framed floors and roof, and corrugated iron roof cladding.
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Cliveden House Clock Tower (1861) Henry Clutton was born on 19 March 1819, the son of Owen and Elizabeth Goodinge Clutton. He studied with Edward Blore between 1835 and 1840, but began his own practice in 1844. He became an expert in French medieval architecture. Clutton also worked with William Burges. John Francis Bentley was a student of ...
Lady Astor remarked, "It is the complete answer to the terrible lie that the so-called 'Cliveden Set' was pro-Fascist." [2] New research shows that the Astors invited a very wide range of guests, including socialists, communists and enemies of appeasement. Scholars no longer claim there was any Cliveden conspiracy.
The long terrace at the rear of the house is decorated with Florentine vases. A monument on a nearby hill, visible from the house, was erected by Mary Anne in 1862 in memory of her father-in-law. [citation needed] In May 2024 the house was the featured in an episode the BBC documentary series Hidden Treasures of the National Trust. [8]
Here, a brief history of Winfield House, the "official residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Court of St. James’s." St. Dunstan's Villa was built in 1825. Plan of ...