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Opening Times. November to February: open on Sundays from 11am to 4pm and on Mondays from 12pm to 4pm. Last admission to the house is one hour before closing. March to October: open on Sundays from 11am to 5pm and Monday to Wednesday from 12pm to 4.30pm. Last admission is one hour before closing. Pre-booking for House entry is required.
Strawberry Hill House — souvent appelée simplement Strawberry Hill — est une villa néogothique construite à Twickenham, à Londres par Horace Walpole (1717-1797) à partir de 1749. C'est l'exemple type du style d'architecture néogothique ou Strawberry Hill Gothic [ 1 ] , qui a préfiguré le renouveau gothique du XIX e siècle .
Strawberry Hill House is a Gothic Revival villa built in Twickenham, London, by Horace Walpole (1717–1797) from 1749 onward. Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford, was an English writer and politician, who developed the genre of gothic novels and as a Whig politician who kept a copy of Charles I’s death warrant at his house.
While at Strawberry Hill he wrote The Castle of Otranto, a novel and perhaps the work most identified with him today. The fame of the house, grounds, and collections were established by the Description of Strawberry Hill (1784), an enduring illustrated account meant to encourage public curiosity about the estate.
Strawberry Hill House is one of the best-documented houses in the country. Not only did Walpole leave ‘A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole’ but he also described it in numerous letters and commissioned drawings by John Carter & paintings by Heinrich Muntz to record the changing appearance of the House.
They returned to Strawberry Hill in November 1841. The 'Great Sale'of 1842 The Earl, pressed by debts and out of sympathy with Twickenham, then decided to sell off the Walpole treasures and to abandon the house. 'The Great Sale' of 1842 lasted for 32 days in all, starting on 25 April 1842. The Strawberry Hill receptions
Há 3 dias · Strawberry Hill House’s story begins in 1747, when Horace Walpole discovered and purchased ‘Chopp’d Straw Hall’, one of the last remaining sites available on the banks of the Thames in fashionable Twickenham. He set about transforming what was then a couple of cottages into his vision of a ‘little Gothic castle’ with pinnacles, battlements and a round tower.
