Dyrham Park
Baroque country house of golden limestone with two contrasting fronts, set in a sweeping deer park.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Dyrham Park near Bath is about the house itself as a built object: why its two fronts do not match, and what that says about William Blathwayt, Secretary at War to William the Third, who rebuilt it in the sixteen nineties. It brings in a little-known Huguenot architect, the designer of Chatsworth, a nearby quarry and timber shipped from colonial Virginia. Best heard standing on the lawn where you can see the house front.
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