Talk:Stepleton House

Vanbrugh?
Stepleton House was included by Jack Hargreaves in his television programme (available in remade form on YouTube) on Dorset Manor Houses, part of his Old Country series. Hargreaves claimed the house was remodelled by Vanbrugh, but that architect is not mentioned in the National Heritage Listing. Maybe it's "style of" rather than "by" Vanbrugh. He talks about the hunting writer Sir Peter Beckford, who owned the house, but not his grandfather, another Peter Beckford, who owned thirteen estates and thousands of slaves in Jamaica. He was once described as "the richest subject in Europe." Presumably slavery paid for the purchase and rebuilding. NRPanikker (talk) 00:22, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Just looking at the dates ("original research" in Wikipedia parlance) makes it unlikely that Vanbrugh was responsible for redesigning Stepleton early in his career, as he had been dead for 19 years before the wealthy Julines Beckford purchased the house. NRPanikker (talk) 00:48, 10 October 2022 (UTC)