User:Giano/Mad Houses

Brief outline of development explanation

 * Castle to house
 * Ownership from warlords to milionaires then to paupers

Tudor
Do something here with Henry VIII

Renaissance
Bess of Hardwick Many rich husbands etc.
 * Hardwick Hall

Palladian I

 * Banqueting House
 * Buitl by James I who was a very odd man - getting drunk in the basement.
 * Charles I having his head chopped off outside his own window.

Baroque

 * Blenheim Palace
 * Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough

Palladian II

 * West Wycombe Park
 * Francis Dashwood and the Hell Fire Club

Neoclasical

 * Ickworth House (begun 1795)
 * Whole family were quite mad.

Gothic

 * Fonthill Abbey (1795 - 1813)
 * William Thomas Beckford