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Longford Castle

Palaces and Aristocratic Residences

Longford Castle is a Grade I listed country house on the banks of the River Avon south of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, built for Sir Thomas Gorges to an unusual triangular plan by the architect John Thorpe between about 1576 and 1591. The house was remodeled in the early nineteenth century under James Wyatt and restored again in the 1870s by Anthony Salvin, and it has long been the seat of the Earls of Radnor. It remains the home of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 9th Earl of Radnor, and its rooms, art collection and gardens are opened to the public on select days each year. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building Type
Country House 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Odstock, United Kingdom 2
Completed Year
1576 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
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House, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Elizabethan Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Longford Castle (Wikipedia)
Gothic Revival, Styles and Movements
Source Longford Castle (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
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1. Longford Castle (Wikipedia)
  • Longford Castle, History section
    In 1573 Thomas Gorges acquired the manor (at the time written "Langford"), which was originally owned by the Servington (or Cervington) family.
  • standing status determination, wikipedia summary
    It is the seat of the Earl of Radnor and an example of the Elizabethan prodigy house.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field
    completion_date/completed = c.1576-1591, 1802-1817
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field
    Longford Castle is a Grade I listed country house on the banks of the River Avon south of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It is the seat of the Earl of Radnor and an example of the Elizabethan prodigy house.
  • In Style: Elizabethan Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Elizabethan and Gothic Revival architecture
  • In Style: Gothic Revival, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Elizabethan and Gothic Revival architecture
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2. Longford Castle (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Odstock, United Kingdom
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Odstock, United Kingdom
Wikidata item Q6673827, property P131/P17 (location): Odstock, United Kingdom
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