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Description: | The main part of the house was built in the mid seventeenth century by Sir William Pitt, Comptroller of the Household to James I. In the late eighteenth century, the red-brick house was covered with stucco and painted white.
After the Battle of Waterloo, Parliament voted £600,000 for the purchase of a house and estate for the Duke of Wellington. He decided, after considering other possibilities such as Bramshill and Uppark, on Stratfield Saye, offered to him by the 2nd Lord Rivers. Wellington acquired the estate in 1817. This was probably owing to the excellent state of the estate farms rather than to the house, which the Duke planned to demolish and build, on higher ground, a house to rival Blenheim Palace, created almost a century before under similar circumstances. We may have been blessed with a Palace of Waterloo! Costs defeated the Duke, and he had to be content with extending the existing house. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | building Strathfeld Saye Strathfield-Saye Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley house Stratfieldsaye Strathfield Say Lord Rivers Waterloo | Temporal: | start=1817-01-01; end=1830-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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