West Wycombe Park House

West Wycombe, United Kingdom

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West Wycombe Park, a country house built between 1740 and 1800 near West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, was conceived as a pleasure palace for Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Baronet, an 18th-century libertine and dilettante. The mansion is a long rectangle with four columned and pedimented façades, three of them theatrically so, and encapsulates the entire progression of British 18th-century architecture from early Palladian to Neoclassical styles, though anomalies in its design make it architecturally unique. Set within an 18th-century landscaped park dotted with temples and follies that serve as satellites to the house itself, the Grade I listed building was given to the National Trust in 1943 by Sir John Dashwood, 10th Baronet. Though the National Trust owns the structure, the Dashwood family continues to reside there, and the house opens to the public during summer months while also hosting civil weddings and corporate events to support its maintenance.

Movement

Neoclassical architecture

Type: historic house museum, English country house
Heritage: Grade I listed building
Place: West Wycombe, United Kingdom

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