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Theobalds House

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Theobalds House was an Elizabethan prodigy house in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England, built between 1564 and 1585 for William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and enlarged by his son the Earl of Salisbury. Queen Elizabeth I visited eight times between 1572 and 1596, and after the Cecils exchanged it with the Crown it became King James I's favorite country seat, where he died in 1625; the palace was demolished by 1650 following the English Civil War. A separate Georgian mansion, Theobalds Park, was built on part of the estate in 1763 for George Prescott and survives as a Grade II* listed building, while the site of the original palace is now the public park of Cedars Park. 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
Broxbourne, United Kingdom 2
Completed Year
1585 1
Classification
Standing Status
Demolished 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
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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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Georgian Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Theobalds House (Wikipedia)
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1. Theobalds House (Wikipedia)
  • Theobalds House, Fit for a queen section
    Lord Burghley commissioned a grand new house, which was built between 1564 and 1585.
  • Wikipedia categories
    Category:Houses completed in 1585
  • standing status determination
    Queen Elizabeth I visited eight times between 1572 and 1596, and after the Cecils exchanged it with the Crown it became King James I's favorite country seat, where he died in 1625; the palace was demolished by 1650 following the English Civil War.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field
    Theobalds House, also known as Theobalds Palace, was a significant 16th-century stately home located in the parish of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. Set in extensive parkland, it was a residence of statesmen Lord Burghley and his son the Earl of Salisbury, both leading royal advisers. It was a notable example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. It became a royal palace in the seventeenth century when it
  • In Style: Georgian Architecture, Wikipedia article
    In 1763, Prescott built a Georgian style mansion, known as Theobalds Park, about a mile to the west of the original palace.
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2. Theobalds House (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Broxbourne, United Kingdom
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Broxbourne, United Kingdom
Wikidata item Q512922, property P131/P17 (location): Broxbourne, United Kingdom
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Wikidata: Theobalds House
Wikidata Q512922, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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