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38: 22: 109: 46: 151:, ca 1767–70 A kitchen court was added to the rear in 1771–73. The most notable feature of the interior is the two-storey Gilt Hall, designed and installed by George Shakespear, master carpenter and architect, of London, who made extensive interior alterations, 1770–81. The organ was built by 506:(1. William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham; 2. Frances Countess of Kildare; 3. Frances Duchess of Richmond and Lenox; 4. Charles Stuart Duke of Richmond and Lenox; 5. Sir Joseph Williamson; 6. Lady Catherine O'Brien). 195:
Cobham Hall remained the family home of the Earls of Darnley until 1957; it is now home to the school. It is open to the public on a limited number of days each year.
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extensively, for interiors that included the picture gallery and the dining room, and for stables and a Gothic dairy. The library was fitted up by
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During the first world war it was an Australian convalescent hospital. At one point it was led by Matron
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John Gough Nichols, Sepulchral Memorials of the Cobham Family, 1841: project never completed/published
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were also filmed outside the building, and it was also used in a few scenes in the comedy sketch show
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Map of Kent showing location of Cobham Hall and Cooling Castle, seats of Barons Cobham c. 1208 – 1603
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in the 16th century and a later classical central block, the "Cross Wing", remodelled in 1661–63 by
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F. C. Brooke, Sepulchral Memorials of the Cobham Family (1836–74), completion of Nichols' work.
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in a room full of priceless treasures was filmed in the Gilt Hall. Scenes from an adaption of
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building is one of the largest and most important houses in Kent, re-built as an Elizabethan
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on the site since the 12th century. The current building consists of a pair of
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In the 18th century, the hall passed to the Bligh family, later
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Cobham Hall in 1868, and as today; Tudor wings built 1584–91 by
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Families who have owned the manor include the Cobham family (
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who had served in Egypt and she was awarded a second class
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A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840
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Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox
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Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox
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The building has been used as a film set. A scene in
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The Lords of Cobham, their Monuments and the Church
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William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham
Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox


English country house
Kent
grade I listed
prodigy house
William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham
Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox
Cobham Hall School
James Wyatt
Landmark Trust


manor house
Tudor
William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham
Peter Mills
Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Earls of Darnley
John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley
Sir William Chambers
John Snetzler
John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley
James Wyatt
George Stanley Repton
John Adey Repton
Jacobethan style

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