Bowood House near Calne as it looks today became Lord Shelburne's principal home in England Lord Shelburne's son, the future Prime Minister, later recalled spending his childhood ?in the remotest parts of the south of Ireland? ? on the ...
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Secondly, the new house was to replace an old estate farmhouse and would join the group of existing Georgian farm buildings. The architect, Digby Harris, came up with a novel solution ? a two-faced house which projected an elegant classical ... Please note that the Bowood example is not a case where the owners 'convert the stables into a home'; only the 'Big House' was demolished, with the family moving back into the 'Little House', which comprised the old Orangery and ...
