Stourhead
Sign in to saveStourhead () is a 1,072-hectare (2,650-acre) estate at the source of the River Stour in the southwest of the English county of Wiltshire, extending into Somerset.
Key facts
- Historic site.name
- Stourhead
- Historic site.image
- Stourhead Bridge A.jpg
- Historic site.caption
- The Palladian bridge and Pantheon
- Historic site.type
- House and garden
- Historic site.location
- Stourton with Gasper, Wiltshire, England
- Historic site.locmapin
- Wiltshire
- Historic site.map_relief
- yes
- Historic site.architect
- Colen CampbellHenry Hoare II (landscape)
- Historic site.built
- House: 1721–1724, destroyed in fire, rebuilt 1906Gardens: 1741–1780
- Historic site.architecture
- Neo-Palladian
- Historic site.governing_body
- National Trust
- Historic site.designation1
- Grade I listed building
- Historic site.designation1_offname
- Stourhead House
- Historic site.designation1_date
- 6 January 1966
- Historic site.designation1_number
- 1131104
- Historic site.designation2
- Historic garden
- Historic site.designation2_offname
- Stourhead
- Historic site.designation2_date
- 1 September 1987
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.nationaltrust.org.uk/stourhead
- Image
- Stourhead House - geograph.org.uk - 31721.jpg
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- described at URL
- www.nationaltrust.org.uk/stourhead
- Commons category
- Stourhead
- OS grid reference
- ST7742334015
- postal code
- BA12 6QH
- P13249
- Stourhead
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Stourhead () is a 1,072-hectare (2,650-acre) estate at the source of the River Stour in the southwest of the English county of Wiltshire, extending into Somerset.
The estate is about northwest of the town of Mere and includes a Grade I listed 18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, one of the most famous gardens in the English landscape garden style, farmland, and woodland. Stourhead has been part-owned by the National Trust since 1946.
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Sir Richard Hoare, 2nd Baronet
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Stourton with Gasper
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1725 establishments in Great BritainBuildings by Colen CampbellCountry houses in WiltshireEnglish gardens in English Landscape Garden styleGeorgian architecture in WiltshireGrade I listed buildings in WiltshireGrade I listed housesGrade I listed parks and gardens in WiltshireHistoric house museums in WiltshireHoare familyHouses completed in 1725National Trust properties in WiltshirePalladian Revival architecture in Wiltshire