Wentworth Woodhouse Grade I listed country house South Yorkshire England Deer Park
Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house near the village of Wentworth, in the vicinity of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. "One of the great Whig political palaces", its East Front, 606-foot (185 m) long, is the longest country house façade in Europe. The house includes 365 rooms and covers an area of over acres ( ha). It is surrounded by a 150-acre (61 ha) park and a nearly 90,000-acre (36,000 ha) estate (now separately owned). An existing Jacobean house was entirely rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham (1693–1750), and then reduced to the status of a mere wing by the immense scale of the new "addition" made by his son the 2nd Marquess, who twice became Prime Minister, and made of Wentworth Woodhouse an important Whig powerhouse. In the nineteenth century it was inherited by the Earls Fitzwilliam, who owned it until 1989, benefiting greatly from the coal under the estate. Wentworth Woodhouse is virtually two houses, the rarely-seen or photographed West Front, the garden range facing northwest towards the village, which was the first built, of brick with stone details, and the immense East Front (illustratios, right). The huge length of the East Front is credibly represented as the result of a resentful rivalry with the Stainborough branch of the Wentworth family, who inherited the great Strafford's minor title, Lord Raby, but not his estates, which came to Watson, who added Wentworth to his surname. The Stainborough Wentworths, for whom the Strafford earldom was revived, lived, not by accident, at the nearby Wentworth Castle, which was purchased in 1708, in a competitive spirit, and strenuously rebuilt in a magnificent manner.
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