Vanbrugh house finally to be built - 300 years late

The Sunday Telegraph London | January 19, 2003| | Copyright

A NEW HOUSE designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, the acclaimed architect behind Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace, is to be built in Yorkshire almost 300 years after his death.

Leon Howard, a property developer, is spending more than pounds 1 million to have his new home built using designs by Vanbrugh which he found in the archives of the Victoria and Albert museum.

Mr Howard, a 60-year-old father of six, said that building a home designed by Vanbrugh - who is best known today because Castle Howard was the setting for the television dramatisation of Brideshead Revisited - had been a childhood dream.

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