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Highclere Castle
Highclere Castle is a Grade I listed country house in Hampshire, England, rebuilt from 1679 and largely remodelled in the 1840s in a Jacobethan/Italianate style by Sir Charles Barry. It is the country seat of the Earls of Carnarvon and stands within Capability Brown parkland. The house, gardens and exhibitions are open to the public at set times.
Its prime
1878
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1878
The shape it held in its prime.
A broad, rectangular Bath-stone country house with three main storeys and a taller central tower, punctuated by corner towers and slim Italianate turrets. Repeated vertical rows of tall rectangular sash windows, horizontal banding and carved strapwork friezes run across the façades. A crenellated parapet and pinnacled roofline silhouette the skyline; a gravel drive sweeps across clipped lawns into the parkland beyond, with the taller central tower flying a flag.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1878.
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Families who held Highclere Castle.
The families tied to Highclere Castle across its history — follow a name to its page.
Country seat of the Herbert Earls of Carnarvon; the estate came to Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, by marriage in 1692.
Sawyer
Robert Sawyer held Highclere, bequeathing the mansion to his daughter Margaret, wife of the 8th Earl of Pembroke, in 1692.
Fitzwilliam
Originally granted to the Fitzwilliam family by the king.
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