Kedleston Hall - National Trust

Website http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-kedlestonhall.htm

Classification Historic Building

DescriptionNeo-classical mansion with Adam interiors, landscape gardens and park.

Kedleston Hall is an English country house in Derbyshire, approximately four miles north-west of Derby, and is the seat of the Curzon family. Today it is a National Trust property.

The Curzon family have owned the estate at Kedleston since at least 1297 and have lived in a succession of manor houses near to or on the site of the present Kedleston Hall. The present house was commissioned by Sir Nathaniel Curzon (later 1st Baron Scarsdale) in 1759. The house was designed by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham and was loosely based on an original plan by Andrea Palladio for the never-built Villa Mocenigo. At the time a relatively unknown architect, Robert Adam was designing some garden temples to enhance the landscape of the park; Curzon was so impressed with Adam's designs, that Adam was quickly put in charge of the construction of the new mansion.
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The AddressKedleston Hall, Quarndon, Derby, DE22 5JH

Phone01332 842191

DateOct 19, 2006

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CategoryEngland > Derbyshire
England > Derbyshire > Attractions in Derby

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