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Strawberry Hill House is an eccentric Georgian Gothic Revival villa which was the home of 18th century poet and author, Horace Walpole, son of England's first prime minister.
Strawberry Hill House is an eccentric Georgian Gothic Revival villa which was the home of 18th century poet and author, Horace Walpole, son of England's first prime minister. It has a unique collection of Renaissance glass in a dramatic crimson and gold hall. The Holbein Chamber houses a collection of Holbein paintings on the purple walls, topped by a papier-mache ceiling. The Great North Bedchamber once had a fine bed with ostrich feathers, but has been ravaged by time.
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