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Precedent: Ickworth

Updated: Dec 21, 2018

Ickworth country house, near Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, is perhaps one of the UK's strangest neoclassical houses, famous for it's large Italianate rotunda. The house was built between 1795 and 1829 by the Hervey Family although is now property of the National Trust.

Rear Elevation

Summer house in the walled garden

Italian Gardens

Front elevation

Design-Research . Benjamin Nourse . MAUD . University of Cambridge . 2017-19
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