Historic Houses And Their Gardens; Palaces, Castles, Country Places And Gardens of the Old And New Worlds Described By Several Writers;
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About 1760 he called in the Brothers Adam to design and build for him a new house on a princely scale. The rural peace ol Middle Claydon was invaded by an army of workmen, English and foreign. They set up their masons' sheds, and laid stone to stone, rearing a vast mansion of Anglo-Italian character, with the 116 The Home of the Verneys The Home of the Verneys 117 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE S ROOM AND PORTRAIT 118 The Home of the Verneys GENERAL VIEW OF THE DRAWING-ROOM CLAYDON HOUSE cold but stately... frontages of the period. Therein was a great central hall with marble columns, and a ball-room, one hundred and twenty feet in length, with a succession oi rooms of size on a like scale. Of these, saloon, library, and dining-hall still re- main, each a sumptuous apartment fifty feet long by twenty-five feet broad, and twenty-five feet high. When the roof was in place there came troops of skilful joiners with great store of cedar, rich old Spanish mahogany, and ebony, satinwood and ivory for inlays.
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