Foots Cray Place was one of the four country houses built in England in the 18th century to a design inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra near Vicenza. Built in 1754 near Sidcup, Kent, Foots Cray Place was demolished in 1950 after a fire in 1949.[1] Of the three other houses in England, Nuthall Temple in Nottinghamshire was built 1757 and demolished in 1929; the other two survive: Mereworth Castle (completed 1725, also in Kent) and Chiswick House (completed 1729, in London),[2] both now Grade I listed buildings. A modern fifth example, Henbury Hall, was built near Macclesfield in the 1980s.[3] Another example of a similar structure in England is the Temple of the Four Winds at Castle Howard, which is a garden building not a house.
- ^ "England's Lost Country Houses | Foots Cray Place". Archived from the original on 15 April 2009. Retrieved 20 January 2009.
- ^ Chiswick House, one of the most notable of England's Palladian houses was partially demolished in the 20th century; only the "corps de logis" remains today
- ^ http://www.julianbicknell.co.uk/view-henburyrotunda_cheshire.php, http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Palladio/PalladianBritain/VillasInBritain/VillaRotondasInfluence/HenburyHall.aspx Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine