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GRAVENHURST                                                    TL 091 347

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Pavilion, Wrest Park

The Pavilion was designed by Thomas Archer between 1709 and 1711 as a pleasure house. It stands at the end of a formal canal called Long Water.

Thomas Archer also designed the Cascade House at
​CHATSWORTH Derbyshire 





​Date taken: 6/10/2011

OLD WARDEN                                                            TL 138 440

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Swiss Cottage

The Picturesque-style Swiss Cottage was built in the Swiss Garden in the 1820s for Robert Henley Ongley.

After the garden was completed in 1834, extravagant parties were held where the servants had to dress in Swiss costume.

The Swiss Cottage was used as a tearoom and food was served from a hidden ground floor. 

SILSOE                                                                      TL 088 353

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Bath House, Wrest Park

The Bath House at was designed by Edward Stevens in 1770 for Jemima Grey. Thomas Wright was Jemima's tutor and may have influenced the Picturesque ruin style, though it was possibly altered in the early 19th century.






Date taken: ​6/10/2011

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Bowling Green House, Wrest Park

Batty Langley made alteration to the Bowling Green House in 1735 for Henry de Grey. Langley added the painted wooden Tuscan loggia as a shelter from which to view the bowling green.

​Batty Langley designed the Gothick Temple at Bramham Park, West Riding.




Date taken: 6/10/2011

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Capability Brown Column, Wrest Park

After Lancelot Brown had worked at Wrest Park in 1758-80, a column was erected to commemorate him in the bath house garden. It was moved to its present site in 1828.


















Date taken: 6/10/2011

SILSOE                                                                     TL 091 355

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Le Petit Tianon, Wrest Park

The Petit Trianon was built by Earl de Grey in 1856 for his grandchildren.









Date taken: 6/10/2011

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Chinese Bridge, Wrest Park

Anne Florence Cowper, the daughter of Earl de Grey, had the present stone bridge rebuilt in 1876.  








Date taken: 6/10/2011


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Chinese Temple, Wrest Park

The Chinese Temple and bridge at Wrest Park were designed to create a 'willow-pattern' effect. William Chambers may have been the designer in about 1760. It was remodelled in 1876, and rebuilt in the 1940s.

There is a Chinese House at 
​STOWE Buckinghamshire 




​Date taken: 6.10.2011

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Dairy, Wrest Park

The Dairy was built in the 1830s at the same time as the house.








Date taken: 6/10/2011

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Orangery, Wrest Park

The Orangery was built in the French-style in about 1835, to the design of Thomas Philip, when Batty Langley's Green House of 1736 was removed during landscaping.







​Date taken: 6/10/2011

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West Half House, Wrest Park

West Half House is a garden seat and was made for Henry Grey in about 1726.








Date taken: 6/10/2011

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East Half House, Wrest Park

East Half House was made at the same time as West Half House.









Date taken: 6/10/2011

WOBURN                                                                 SP 966 326

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Chinese Dairy, Woburn Park

The Chinese Dairy at Woburn Park was built in about 1788 by Henry Holland. The porch was added by Humphry Repton.

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WOBURN                                                                SP 966 324

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  The Camellia House, Woburn Park

  The Camellia House was designed by Jeffry Wyatville in      1822.

  Jeffry Wyatville also designed:
  Orangery, Longleat Park, HORNINGHAM, Wiltshire.
  Orangery, Belton House, BELTON, Lincolnshire.
​  Camellia House, Bretton Park, WEST BRETTON. 




  Date taken: 15/08/2007

WOBURN

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The Shell House, Woburn Park

In 1811, the Shell House at Woburn Park was designed by Jeffry Wyatville.









Date taken: 15/08/2007

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There are examples of shellwork at:

A La Ronde, WITHYCOMBE RALEIGH, Devon
Shell House, TERRINGTON, North Riding
Wilderness Wood Grotto, SKIPTON, West Riding
Shell Grotto, MARGATE, Kent

WOBURN

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Rock Grotto, Woburn Park











Date taken: 15/08/2007

WOBURN                                         SP 969 324

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  Temple, Woburn Park

  The Roman Doric Temple is thought to have been                designed by Humphry Repton in the early 19th century.









  Date taken: 15/08/2007

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