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Chatsworth House

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Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales, four miles northeast of Bakewell, England, that has belonged to the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, since 1549. The present house was built mainly between 1687 and 1708 under the direction of William Talman and Thomas Archer, with later additions by Jeffry Wyattville and landscape work by Joseph Paxton between 1820 and 1840, and its architecture spans English Baroque and Italianate styles. Ownership rests with the Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement, who lease the house to the Chatsworth House Trust, an independent charity founded in 1981 that operates it as one of Britain's best known stately homes. 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
House 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Bakewell, United Kingdom 2
Completed Year
1708 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.

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1. Chatsworth House (Wikipedia)
  • Chatsworth House, 11th-16th centuries section
    Bess began to build the new house in 1553.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales, four miles northeast of Bakewell, England, that has belonged to the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, since 1549. The present house was built mainly between 1687 and 1708 under the direction of William Talman and Thomas Archer, with later additions by Jeffry Wyattville and landscape work by Joseph Paxton between 1820 and 1840, and its architecture spans English Baroque and Italianate styles. Ownership rests with the Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement, who lease the house to the Chatsworth House Trust, an independent charity founded in 1981 that operates it as one of Britain's best known stately homes.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field
    completion_date/completed = 1708, with additions 1820-1840
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field
    building_type = House
  • In Style: Italianate Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: English Baroque, Italianate
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2. Chatsworth House (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Bakewell, United Kingdom
    Wikidata item Q1068289, property P131/P17 (location): Bakewell, United Kingdom
  • In Style: English Baroque Architecture, Infobox style field: English Baroque, Italianate
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