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Strawberry Hill House in 2012 after restoration. Strawberry Hill House—often called simply Strawberry Hill—is a Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London, by Horace Walpole (1717–1797) from 1749 onward.
Horace Walpole by John Giles Eccardt, c. 1755. In the House of Commons, Walpole represented one of the many rotten boroughs, Castle Rising, which consisted of underlying freeholds in four villages near Kings Lynn, Norfolk, from 1754 until 1757.
Horace Walpole's aesthetic productions, especially his home at Strawberry Hill House, have been interpreted through the lens of queer theory and described as camp. [19] [20] The Castle of Otranto is seen as establishing a literary foundation in which sexual desire and transgression is a defining thematic undercurrent of the new genre of the Gothic.
The eighteenth-century development is named after "Strawberry Hill", the fanciful Gothic Revival villa designed by author Horace Walpole between 1749 and 1776. It began as a small 17th century house "little more than a cottage", with only 5 acres (20,000 m 2) of land and ended up as a "little Gothic castle" in 46 acres (190,000 m 2). The ...
The house has a central domed full height stairwell with a stone cantilevered staircase with a lyre-shaped wrought iron balustrade topped with a banded mahogany handrail. [1] Horace Walpole's study was decorated and designed by Italian painter Jacopo Amigoni in the late-Baroque/Rococo style.
Wentworth Castle: Horace Walpole found the south front (finished 1764) evinced "the most perfect taste in architecture". Wentworth Castle is a grade-I listed country house, the former seat of the Earls of Strafford, at Stainborough, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.
The chapel was built for Horace Walpole in 1772–74 and was in the grounds of his home, Strawberry Hill House. Subsequent building separated the chapel from the house, as the nearest parts of those grounds have been built on with what is now St Mary's University. [2]
The Walpole family (/ ˈ w ɔː l ˌ p oʊ l, ˈ w ɒ l-/) is a famous English aristocratic family known for their 18th century political influence and for building notable country houses including Houghton Hall.