Strawberry Hill House
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Strawberry Hill House—often called simply Strawberry Hill—is a Gothic Revival villa in Twickenham, London, built by Horace Walpole from 1749 onward. It is the prototypical example of the "Strawberry H
Strawberry Hill House in 2012 after restoration
Clock tower of the later 'Waldegrave' extension
An 18th-century engraving of the villa
The Robert Adam fireplace in the round room
The Castle of Otranto
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The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel i
Strawberry Hill House
…in the inside rooms of Strawberry Hill complemented the Gothic exterior. The house is described by Walpole as "the scene that inspired the author of The Castle of Otranto", though Michael Snodin has observed: "it is an interesting comment on 18th-century sensibility that the melancholy interiors of The Castle of Otranto…
Title page from the second edition
Illustration from a 1794 German edition
Portrait of Horace Walpole by Joshua Reynolds, 1756