# Talk:Burton Pynsent House

Listed building - very long listing
Description of estate in 1948.
About Pitt and the estate
Only a sentence about decoration on terrace
A couple of pages about building location. Includes description about what was left after Pinney family destruction.
Something about will dispute over property?
Location, a nice arty image and details about Lord Chatham - I haven't given page numbers as the house is mentioned on quite a few.
Britain Express source about monument - explains Pynsents Will disagreement and why house went to Pitt.
Recent rental advertisement (2001) stating current information about the house and grounds
Nephew William Wallis was the one who missed out on the house.
Cricket matches held there?


### References
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Reviewer: Jclemens (talk · contribs) 23:31, 7 January 2017 (UTC)


### First Read-through
"The house at Burton Pynsent has been built section by section over the period over many years."  I'm not sure that's in the correct tense, and it certainly looks like the second "over" should be "of" instead.
Agreed, done. WormTT(talk)
"The house is built on an flat terrace"  Pretty sure that should be an 'a', shouldn't it?
Yep, done. WormTT(talk)
Not a problem per se, but I don't normally see this many redlinks in Wikipedia articles--seems like we have less tolerance for them, and editors are predisposed to put in stubs, redirects, or take out the links.
I still like red-links, I'm old school! I'll see if I can reduce the number though. WormTT(talk)
"In the mid 20th century, cows from the nearby Burton Dairy Farm ascended the column on more than one occasion." Wait, what?  Either that's some subtle vandalism that got missed or there's far more of a story that needs to be told.
I'm in two minds on the cows. We've found a number of sources which confirm that a cow attempted to climb the tower at least three times, with the third time leading to the cow's death - falling from the top. It's an interesting tidbit, but it's not about the house, it's about a tower in the grounds of the house, a tower which has it's own article. I think the best thing to do is just remove it the info, which I have done.  WormTT(talk)
That's partially my fault for not reading the child article--From the picture and text in this article it wasn't clear to me that the column was a tower with internal stairs, rather than a solid structure, hence my "huh?" reaction. Jclemens (talk) 18:01, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Overall, my thoughts on reading this are... "So what?" I would like to know more about the significance of the house, and why it's a listed building--just for the association with Pitt? I think the article covers the bases, probably as adequately as can be given the paucity of information present, but I'd like to hear more about it. Jclemens (talk) 23:58, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

I'll have a look at focussing the article a bit more, but generally the significance is in the ownership. Architecturally, it's not that special, built bit by bit over a couple of hundred years, with no particular interesting features. The ownership, especially it's ownership by Pitt and how he came to acquire it - that's got to be notable. As I said, I'll try to focus it a bit more there. WormTT(talk) 21:55, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
Passing this in recognition of your efforts and the limitations we can't realistically expect you to work around.  However, I'd also recommend that the monument be merged into this article--I think it would improve coverage of both connected topics, and while the monument does appear separately covered and notable, that doesn't mean it MUST be a separate article. Jclemens (talk) 18:01, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

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