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Strawberry fair; Horace Walpole's hidden Gothic gem in Twickenham is a secret that needs to be saved for the future, says Katrina Burroughs HOMES & PROPERTY.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20060412
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Byline: KATRINA BURROUGHS

STRAWBERRY Hill in Twickenham is as delicious as it sounds. The villa on the Thames was created by Horace Walpole MP, essayist, letter writer, and assiduous dilettante. Originally built by the coachman of the Earl of Bradford, the Georgian house began life as a strictly vanilla-flavoured dwelling called Chopp'd Straw Hall.

Between 1747 and 1792, however, Walpole renamed it more poetically, doubled its size and turned it into a little Gothic castle, complete with crenellated towers and finials, windows with ogee arches and a stairwell based on a ...

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