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Claydon House

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Claydon House

House in Buckinghamshire, England, 21 km/13 mi northwest of Aylesbury. Claydon was the home of the Verney family from 1463. The present house was built 1752–68, but all that now remains is the west wing, containing magnificent rococo state rooms, including Florence Nightingale's bedroom and museum. She was the sister of Parthenope Verney, and a constant visitor to Claydon. The Verney family gave Claydon to the National Trust in 1956, but continue to live in the house.



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Like Betjeman, they ruthlessly describe places as they are: thus the setting of Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, the finest Rococo fantasy in England, is a 'cultural sink in which successive governments have been able to drop prisons, borstals, army camps and sinister experimental institutions'.
AN INSULAR ROCOCO: architecture, politics and society in Ireland and ... by WATKIN, DAVID / The Architectural Review
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