Wilbury House or Wilbury Park is an 18th-century Neo-Palladian country house in the parish of Newton Tony, Wiltshire in South West England, about 8.7 miles (14 km) northeast of Salisbury. It is a Grade I listed building, and the surrounding park and garden are Grade II listed.
Wilbury House as it appeared originally, folio from Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus (1715)
Plan of Wilbury House as it appeared originally, folio from Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus (1715)
Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and the principles of formal classical architecture from ancient Greek and Roman traditions. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Palladio's interpretation of this classical architecture developed into the style known as Palladianism.
A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book IV of Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura, in an English translation published in London, 1736
Plan for Palladio's Villa La Rotonda (c. 1565) – features of the house were incorporated in numerous Palladian-style houses throughout Europe over the following centuries.
Villa Capra "La Rotonda" (begun c. 1565) – one of Palladio's most influential designs
Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza (from 1546) – loggia with Palladian windows
