Seventeenth Century Founding
The house was built sometime during 1622–1625 for George Calvert, Secretary of State to James I, who later became first Lord Baltimore and founder of Maryland in what is now part of the United States. Initially built as a hunting lodge it was a slightly rectangular building fashioned of red brick with blue-black diamond shaped tiles known as diapering for decoration. Kiplin had four towers, which unusually, were not placed at the corners of the structure, but at the centre of each of the four walls - the north and south towers containing staircases, whilst the east and west comprised part of the rooms in which they were contained. At the summit of each tower is an ogee dome.
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