Longleat

house, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom

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In Western architecture: England
…these was his own house, Longleat (1568–c. 1580), on which he had the assistance of the mason Robert Smythson, who was to be the leading architect of the late 16th century. Except for the symmetry of the plan, arranged around two courts, there was little new in planning at Longleat,…
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