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an architectural drawing of a large house

from The English Country House in Perspective by Gervase Jackson-Stops, illustrations by Brian Delf, Peter Morter, Mel Wright Copyright 1990 pages measure 9 x 12 inches (The detail is much sharper than this poor photo lets on.) 160 pages, with house plans and additional illustrations of each house listed here: Bodiam Castle, East Sussex Knole, Kent Little Moretone Hall, Cheshire Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire Belton House, Lincolnshire Petworth House, West Sussex Stourhead, Wiltshire Kedleston…

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a hallway with black and white checkered flooring, chandelier and stairs

The French influence continues inside with the plan: two public rooms in the central axis (Hall and Saloon), with three apartments of two to three rooms (withdrawing room, bedchamber and closet) on each floor with subsidiary service spaces. That, apparently, is very close to the French manner of planning a country house, like Le Vau's Vaux-le-Vicomte. There is a touch of Baroque too to the original rooms with their luxuriant carvings by Edmund Carpenter and possibly Grinling Gibbons, just as…

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a large building with lots of windows sitting on top of a lush green field

On our journey south from Northumberland, we stopped off at Belton House in Lincolnshire, England. This house was used as a location in the 1995 BBC production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was the home of Lady Catherine de Burgh.

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a large stone building sitting in the middle of a lush green field next to trees

004 Belton House: view from the south-west. The house is faced with the local Ancaster stone, with lighter ashlar blocks from Ketton in neighbouring Rutland for the quoining. Above a semi-basement there are an upper ground floor, a first floor, and an attic storey

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