Country seat
A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city. | ||||
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country seat
\coun"try seat`\ (k?n"tr? s?t`). a dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
country seat
\coun"try seat`\ (k?n"tr? s?t`). a dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
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English country house
The English country house is generally accepted as a large house or mansion, once in the ownership of an individual who also most likely owned another great house in the West End of London. Hence one moved from one's town house to one's country house. Country houses and stately homes are sometimes confused—while a country house is always in the country, a stately home can also be in a town. Apsley House, built for the Duke of Wellington at the corner of Hyde Park ('No. 1, London' it was called), is one example. Other country houses such as Ascott in Buckinghamshire were deliberately designed not to be stately, and to harmonise with the landscape, while some of the great houses such as Kedleston Hall and Holkham Hall were built as "power houses" to impress and dominate the landscape, and were certainly intended to be "stately homes". Today many former "stately homes", while still country houses, are far from stately and most certainly not homes.
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