Architecture
The building has a front and rear of entirely different styles. The north side of Castle Goring is Gothic and is thought to resemble Arundel Castle 8 km (5.0 mi) to the west, while the south side has a Greco-Palladian front, said to be a copy of a villa near Rome.
Architecture experts Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner, in their book "The Buildings Of England: Sussex" (1965), wrote:
| “ | By the deepest standard, all this was fiddling while Blake's Albion was beginning to burn but what a splendidly sophisticated and self-aware end to an age! | ” |
English Heritage have described Castle Goring as
| “ | the most complete example of the 'carnival-style' of the era...A fragile gem of a country house, the Grade I listed building now urgently requires major repairs. | ” |
Surprisingly little is known about the interior of this once magnificent country house. There is known to be a glass dome in the centre of the building above a one-magnificent spiral staircase. The building's owners do not welcome visitors and only relatively few photographs of this impressive building exist in the public domain.
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