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Strawberry Hill is an affluent area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames near Twickenham. It is a suburban development situated 10.4 miles (16.7 km) west south-west of Charing Cross. It consists of a number of residential roads centered around a small development of shops and services by Strawberry Hill railway station. The area's ACORN demographic type is characterized as well-off professionals, larger houses, and converted flats. Image File history File links Greater_london_outline_map_bw. ...
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Strawberry Hill railway station is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south west London, and is in Travelcard Zone 5. ...
Walpole's villa
The nineteenth-century development is named for "Strawberry Hill", the fancifully "Gothick" villa of Horace Walpole, a folly which he purchased in 1748 and rebuilt in stages to his own specifications, expanding the little property from five acres to forty-six over the years. Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin The Gothic Revival was an architectural movement which originated in mid-18th century England. ...
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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, more commonly known as Horace Walpole, (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797), was a politician, writer and forerunner of the Gothic revival. ...
Broadway Tower, Worcestershire, England The folly at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, England, built in the 1700s to resemble Gothic-era ruins In architecture, a folly is an extravagant, useless, or fanciful building, or a building that appears to be something other than what it is. ...
Walpole and two friends, including the connoisseur and amateur architect, John Chute (1701-1776), and draftsman, Richard Bentley (1708-1782), called themselves a “Committee of Taste” which would modify the architecture of the building. Bentley left the group abruptly after an argument in 1761. William Robinson of the Royal Office of Works contributed professional experience in overseeing construction. They looked at many examples of architecture in England and in other countries, adapting such works as the chapel at Westminister Abbey built by Henry VII for inspiration for the fan vaulting of the gallery, without any pretense at scholarship. Chimneypieces were improvised from engravings of tombs at Westminster and Canterbury and gothic stone fretwork blind details were reproduced by painted wallpapers, while in the Round Tower added in 1771, the chimneypiece was based on the tomb of Edward the Confessor "improved by Mr. Adam". The Ministry of Works was a department of the UK Government formed in 1943 to organise the requisitioning of property for wartime use. ...
The Abbeys western facade The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which is almost always referred to as Westminster Abbey, is a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral, in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. ...
Robert Adam Robert Adam (3 July 1728 - 3 March 1792) was a Scottish architect, interior designer and furniture designer, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. ...
He incorporated many of the exterior details of cathedrals into the interior of the house. From the outside there were two predominant styles, which seemed to be ‘mixed’, a style based on castles with turrets and battlements, and a style based on Gothic cathedrals with arched windows and stained glass.
The building evolved similarly to how a medieval cathedral often evolved over time, there was no fixed plan from the beginning. Walpole added new features over a thirty-year period, as he saw fit.
Eighteenth century engraving of Walpole's villa The first stage to make a ‘little Gothic castle’ began in 1749 and was complete by 1753, a second stage began in 1760, and there were other modifications such as work on the great north bedchamber in 1772, and the "BeauclerK Tower" of the third phase of alterations, completed to designs of a professional architect, James Essex, in 1776. Horace Walpoles gothic mansion at Strawberry Hill (Contemporary engraving). ...
Horace Walpoles gothic mansion at Strawberry Hill (Contemporary engraving). ...
Events While in debtors prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). ...
1760 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Year 1772 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Year 1776 (MDCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
 Hunters Lodge, a house in the Strawberry Hill Gothic style in North London, built circa 1800 The building described by Walpole as a 'little Gothic castle' is significant, as it is one of the most influential individual buildings of such Rococo "Gothick" architecture which led to the Gothic revival of the nineteenth century, and for increasing use of Gothic designs for houses. The type of style has variously been described as Georgian Gothic, Strawberry Hill Gothic, Georgian Rococo, or Gothick Image File history File links Size of this preview: 473 × 307 pixelsFull resolution (473 × 307 pixel, file size: 19 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) own photo I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin The Gothic revival was a European architectural movement with origins in mid-18th century England. ...
Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin The Gothic Revival was an architectural movement which originated in mid-18th century England. ...
In 2004, Strawberry Hill featured in the BBC/Endemol TV series Restoration (presented by Griff Rhys Jones, Ptolemy Dean and Marianne Suhr, produced and directed by Paul Coueslant). Restoration is a set of BBC television series, beginning in 2003. ...
Other attractions Other local attractions include: The local Strawberry Hill railway station was built in 1873 and is an excellent example of the Victorian era railway building boom. St. ...
Strawberry Hill railway station is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south west London, and is in Travelcard Zone 5. ...
1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Ascension to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ...
Reference - Jones, E. and Woodward, C. 1983, A Guide to the Architecture of London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
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