page_title: Strawberry Hill House
section_title: Strawberry Hill Gothic
hierarchical_section_title: Strawberry Hill House / Strawberry Hill Gothic
caption_attribution_description: English: The Priory Hospital, Roehampton, London
context_page_description: Strawberry Hill House—often called simply Strawberry Hill—is the Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London by Horace Walpole from 1749 onward. It is the type example of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture, and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival.
  Walpole rebuilt the existing house in stages starting in 1749, 1760, 1772 and 1776. These added Gothic features such as towers and battlements outside and elaborate decoration inside to create "gloomth" to suit Walpole's collection of antiquarian objects, contrasting with the more cheerful or "riant" garden. The interior included a Robert Adam fireplace; parts of the exterior were designed by James Essex. The garden contained a large seat shaped like a Rococo sea shell, which was recreated in the 2012 restoration of the garden, one of the many examples of historic garden conservation in the UK.
context_section_description: The Strawberry Hill Gothic style became briefly popular, though the researcher Peter Lindfield has argued that the term is not satisfactory for "any Georgian Gothic output" as the houses it has been applied to are varied in style and "have almost nothing in common with the form, appearance, and decoration of Strawberry Hill". Houses built or refronted supposedly in the style include:
  Braziers Park, a South Oxfordshire country house built by Daniel Harris in 1688, re-fronted in the Gothic style in 1799; Lindfield argues that it was influenced more by "very Gothic Oxford" where Harris lived and worked, than by Strawberry Hill House.
  Donnington Park, Berkshire, a house designed by John Chute in 1763.
  Houghton Lodge, a fishing lodge in Hampshire, built around 1800 in the Cottage orné style, influenced by Strawberry Hill.
  Lee Priory, Kent, by James Wyatt 1780-1790, destroyed in the 1950s.
  Priory Hospital in Roehampton, which was built in the Strawberry Hill Gothic style in 1811.
caption: The Priory Hospital, Roehampton, built in Strawberry Hill Gothic, 1811[31]
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