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
Horace Walpole
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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
Strawberry Hill House
…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 Hill Gothic" style of architecture, and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic…
Portrait of Horace Walpole by Joshua Reynolds, 1756
Walpole by Rosalba Carriera, c. 1741.
Horace Walpole by John Giles Eccardt, c. 1755.