Garden · England · Restored
Stourhead
Stourhead is an 18th‑century Palladian country house set within a designed English landscape garden around a large artificial lake in Wiltshire, England. The estate includes the Neo‑Palladian mansion, temples, bridges, grotto, boathouse and extensive planted slopes and walks laid out in the mid‑ to late‑18th century and now managed by the National Trust.
Its prime
1780
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1780
What Stourhead looked like in its prime.
A symmetrical, two‑storey Neo‑Palladian stone mansion on a low raised basement, its central pedimented portico reached by broad stone steps and supported by four classical columns. Pale ashlar façades with sash windows and rusticated ground floor blocks, a balustraded roofline punctuated by urns and statuary, low hipped roof hidden behind the parapet. The house stands before a wide, clipped lawn that falls away toward the estate gardens and the lake beyond; stone urns and flanking balustrades mark the approach.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1780.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Stourhead, including 2 interiors: painted alcove / italian room (house interior), grotto interior and inscription. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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Families who held Stourhead.
The families tied to Stourhead across its history, follow a name to its page.
Hoare
Bought by the banker Henry Hoare in 1717; five generations of the Hoare banking family shaped the house and its landscape garden before the gift to the National Trust in 1946.
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