What eminent English architect created designs for Devonshire House?
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Devonshire House Devonshire House in Piccadilly was the London residence of the Dukes of Devonshire in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was built for William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, in the Palladian style, to designs by William Kent. Completed circa 1740, it stood empty after World War I and was demolished in 1924.
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William Kent William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century.
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Sara Losh Sara or Sarah Losh (1785–29 March 1853) was an English architect and designer. Her biographer describes her as antiquarian, architect and visionary. She was a landowner from Wreay, Cumbria, where her main work is to be found, St Mary's Church. It anticipates the Arts and Crafts Movement and forms part of a group with various associated buildings and monuments which Losh constructed.
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George and Devonshire The George and Devonshire is a Grade II listed public house at Burlington Lane, Chiswick, London.
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Cavendish Crescent, Bath Cavendish Crescent in Bath, Somerset, is a Georgian crescent built in the early 19th century to a design by the architect John Pinch the elder. At 11 houses, it is the shortest of the seven Georgian crescents in Bath. It also has one of the plainest facades, with no central feature, the only decoration being the consoles over the central first floor window of each house.
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Red House, Bexleyheath Red House is a significant Arts and Crafts building located in the town of Bexleyheath in Southeast London, England. Co-designed in 1859 by the architect Philip Webb and the designer William Morris, it was created to serve as a family home for the latter, with construction being completed in 1860.
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Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (2 January 1920 – 3 May 2004), styled Lord Andrew Cavendish until 1944 and Marquess of Hartington from 1944 to 1950, was a British Conservative and later Social Democratic Party politician. He was a minister in the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (his uncle by marriage), but is best known for opening Chatsworth House to the public.
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Hillersdon House Hillersdon House in the parish of Cullompton in Devon, is a grade II* listed late Georgian style manor house overlooking that town. It was built in 1848 by William Charles Grant (1817-1877), to the design of Samuel Beazley, the notable theatre architect.
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Sir William Courtenay, 2nd Baronet Sir William Courtenay, 2nd Baronet (11 March 1676 – 6 October 1735) of Powderham, Devon, was an English landowner and a leading member of the Devonshire gentry.
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Affeton Castle Affeton Castle is a converted late-medieval gatehouse near East Worlington, Devon, England. It was formerly part of the destroyed fortified manor house of Affeton, situated on the side of a valley of the Little Dart River. Built in 1434, the surrounding house was destroyed in the English Civil War of the 1640s, and by the early 19th century the gatehouse was in ruins. It was restored between 1868-9 by Sir George Stucley, 1st Baronet for use as a shooting-box; in 1956, it was converted to form the private home of Sir Dennis Stucley, 5th Baronet. The castle, approximately 60 feet (18 m) by 22 feet (6.7 m) in size, is protected as a Grade II* listed building.
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John Thomas Emmett John Thomas Emmett (18 August 1823 - 3 August 1898) was an English architect and designer based in London.
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Samuel Huggins Samuel Huggins (1811–1885) was an English architect and writer. Huggins' defence of Classical architecture and opposition to a proposed restoration of Chester Cathedral led to the formation of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
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Philipps House Philipps House (until 1916 Dinton House) is an early nineteenth-century Neo-Grecian country house at Dinton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The house was built in 1816 by William Wyndham to the designs of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, replacing a 17th-century house. In 1916 the estate was bought by Bertram Philipps, who renamed the house after himself, then in 1943 gave the house and grounds to the National Trust. The house and its parlkand (known as Dinton Park) are Grade II* listed.
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John Johnson (architect) John Johnson (22 April 1732 – 17 August 1814) was an English architect and Surveyor to the County of Essex. He is best known for designing the Shire Hall, Chelmsford.
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E. J. May Edward John May (1853–1941) was an English architect.
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Richard Lane (architect) Richard Lane (3 April 1795 – 25 May 1880) was a distinguished English architect of the early and mid-19th century. Born in London and based in Manchester, he was known in great part for his restrained and austere Greek-inspired classicism. He also designed a few buildings – mainly churches – in the Gothic style. He was also known for masterplanning and designing many of the houses in the exclusive Victoria Park estate.
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Ffynone Mansion Ffynone (Welsh: "Ffynnonau") is a mansion and estate near Boncath, Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the parish of Manordeifi. The original Georgian design was by architect John Nash and later remodelled by Inigo Thomas.
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Richard Charles Hussey Richard Charles Hussey, often referred to as R. C. Hussey, was a British architect. He was in partnership with Thomas Rickman from 1835, whose practice he assumed in 1838 with the latter's failing health; Rickman died on the 4 January, 1841.
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Thomas Bennett (architect) Sir Thomas Penberthy Bennett KBE FRIBA (1887 – 29 January 1980) was a renowned English architect, responsible for much of the development of the new towns of Crawley and Stevenage.
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Lewis Vulliamy Lewis Vulliamy (15 March 1791 – 4 January 1871) was an English architect belonging to the Vulliamy family of clockmakers.
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Leonard Stokes Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes (1858 – 25 December 1925) was an English architect.
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Edward Hollamby Edward "Ted" Ernest Hollamby (8 January 1921 – 29 December 1999) was an English architect, town planner, and architectural conservationist. Known for designing a number of modernist housing estates in London, he also achieved notability for his work in restoring Red House, the Arts and Crafts building in Bexleyheath, Southeast London which was designed by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1859.