DEVONSHIRE HOUSE
A BIG DEAL. Messrs Holland and Hannen and Cubitts (Limited) are the buyers of Devonshire House, and the Duke of Devonshire intends to remove Borne of the Adam and other decorations. The price is. stated to .exceed £1,000,000. (Devonshire House was designed in 1785 by William Kent for the third Duke of Devonshire. It occupies the site of Berkeley House, which had been burned down in 1733. That house had belonged to Lord Berkeley, of Stratton, and is mentioned in Evelyn's 'diary. Devonshire House is said to have cost only £20,000 originally, exclusive of an honorarium of £IOOO to the architect. Until 1840 the entrance to the house was by a flight of steps on each side, the present portico being modern and out of harmony with the rest of the structure. In 1840 the marble staircase, with its glass balustrade and other decorations, was added. The house has always been, noted for Its gallery of pictures, "j including portraits by Dobsob, Sir Joshua Reynolds, gig Q.
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Wairarapa Age, 19 November 1919, Page 3
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