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Strawberry Hill House & Garden, created by Horace Walpole in the 18th century, has been open to visitors for over 250 years. This extraordinary building is internationally famous as Britain’s finest example of Georgian Gothic revival architecture and home to an increasingly important collection of paintings and objects. Opening Times.
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7 de may. de 2020 · 7 May 2020. Let me take you back to the 18th century – you are coming to visit Horace Walpole’s renowned Strawberry Hill House. Even before you enter the gateway to his “little Gothic castle”, you begin your journey into the world of this extraordinary creation.
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. It is a typical example of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture, [1] and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival.
History. Strawberry Hill House’s story begins in 1747, when Horace Walpole discovered and purchased ‘Chopp’d Straw Hall’, one of the last remaining sites available on the banks of the Thames in fashionable Twickenham.
Strawberry Hill House (lit., 'casa de la colina de fresa'), a menudo llamada simplemente Strawberry Hill, es una villa de campo inglesa del siglo XVIII de estilo gótico, que fue construida en Twickenham, Londres, por Horace Walpole (1717-1797) a partir de 1749 en adelante.
28 de feb. de 2015 · Strawberry Hill, the pioneering Gothic Revival country house near London that the Renaissance man Horace Walpole created between 1749 and 1797. Photo: Courtesy of Strawberry Hill. Horace...
27 de feb. de 2024 · Horace Walpole (1717–97) was an English writer, connoisseur, and collector best known for The Castle of Otranto, which was the first Gothic novel in English and among the earliest horror stories. He built the Gothic Revival mansion known as Strawberry Hill, and he was a committed writer of letters.
