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Stourhead  Stourhead, in Wiltshire, laid out between 1741 and 1765, was one of the first English gardens to favour the natural, landscaped forms that came to epitomize the 18th century English style. Its architect, Henry Flitcroft (1697–1769), surrounded an artificial lake with a series of neoclassical temples in picturesque settings, alluding to the buildings of ancient Rome. | House in Wiltshire, England, 13 km/8 mi south of Frome. Henry Hoare, the banker, commissioned Colen Campbell to build the house in 1722, and the landscaped gardens were laid out 1741–50. The house and its contents, and the estate of 1,000 ha/2,470 acres, including the gardens and the villages of Stourton and Kilmington, were given to the National Trust by Lord Hoare in 1946. |
| The house contains works of art and furniture by Thomas Chippendale the Younger. |
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