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Description: | Highcliffe is an irregular building, roughly L-shaped. We can see the three-storeyed central block, with one arm pointing southwards to the sea and one running to the east. There are two facets to the house. Part of it was built, in the Gothic style, by William John Donthorne between 1830 and 1834. Part incorporates materials from the Grande Maison des Andelys in Normandy bought in 1830 by Lord (Charles) Stuart de Rothesay, owner of Highcliffe, when he was British ambassador to France. These form the best parts of the house, including the oriel window visible in the print above the porch.
At the time of the print, the house was owned by Lord Stuart's youngest daughter, Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, widow of the 3rd Marquis, who inherited the castle for life in 1859. She died in 1891.
Highcliffe Castle is now owned by English Heritage.
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Pevsner, Nikolaus and David Lloyd. 1967. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Buildings of England series, p. 291-293. | 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: | Charles Stuart building William John Donthorne Grande Maison des Andelys house High Cliffe Normandy Highcliffe Castle Lord Stuart de Rothesay Marchioness of Waterford | Temporal: | start=1865-01-01; end=1885-12-31; | 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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