Matfen Hall, Matfen
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Matfen Hall, Matfen
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: Unknown
Thomas Rickman drew up plans for a Gothic house and started building in 1828, but his client, Sir Edward Blackett, wanted an Elizabethan-style house and gave Rickman the push. All the standard mullioned-and-transomed-windows, canted bays and shaped gables. Grade II* listed. The house is now a hotel and that most ignominious fate has befallen its park - it is now a golf course.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.039084
Longitude
-1.951932