Robert Smirke (architect) - Domestic Architecture

Domestic Architecture

  • Luton Hoo

  • Whittingehame House

  • Normanby Hall

  • Lowther Castle

  • Lowther Castle

  • Cholmondeley Castle

  • Eastnor Castle

  • Oulton Hall

In the classical style:

  • Cirencester House north wing (1810–11) and rebuilt east front 1830.
  • alterations to Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire from 1816, damaged by fire in 1843 it was reconstructed by Sydney Smirke.
  • Whittingehame House, East Lothian (1817–18).
  • Hardwicke Court, near Gloucester (1817–19).
  • Oulton Hall (c. 1822) damaged by fire 1850 and restored by Sydney Smirke
  • Normanby Hall (1825–30)

Smirke used the Elizabethan Style at:

  • Drayton Manor (1831–35) demolished 1919.

His Gothic Revival domestic buildings include:

  • Lowther Castle in Cumbria, (in 1806–11) his first major commission when he was 26.
  • Wilton Castle (Yorkshire) (1810)
  • Cholmondeley Castle (1817–19) a remodelling of the existing building.
  • Kinfauns Castle, Perthshire (1822–26)

A rare use of Norman Revival Architecture is:

  • Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, Herefordshire (1812–20)

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