Strawberry Hill House
House museum · London, England
Writers & poets
History
Strawberry Hill House—often called simply Strawberry Hill—is a Gothic Revival villa in Twickenham, London, built by Horace Walpole from 1749 onward. It is the prototypical example of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture, and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Strawberry Hill House”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
About Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
From the Wikipedia article “Horace Walpole”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visiting
This is a house museum. Opening times, tickets and access change, so check the official website before you travel. Get directions.
