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roofs and the taller circular service cores and chimney of local yellow stone. In plan the house is a comma, with a full stop linked by a bridge. The tail of the comma, open on the ground floor with bedrooms above, shelters a paved garden. The broad end has service rooms and entrances below and a
768:. In the designation it was stated that "Along with Peter Lambert Gibbs's own house of 1965, Fernhill in Ashdown Forest, and Robert Harvey's houses in Warwickshire, Horton Rounds is one of the best in the country of a small group of post-war houses clearly influenced by the work of
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and most of the earliest were derived from the place-names of family estates, whether in France or
England. One such recorded is that of Richard de Horton from Northamptonshire, in 1255. See
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can be found in the fields behind the menagerie. There are rumoured to be a series of tunnels from the menagerie towards the
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circular living area above which has views in all directions.
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Lodges at the entrance to the demolished Horton House.
1135:"Relationships and changes Horton CP/AP through time"
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can be seen in neighbouring fields, by its grade II
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903:South Northamptonshire Council Year Book 2010-2011
1184:"Details from listed building database (1407987)"
1110:"Population statistics Horton CP/AP through time"
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560:Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
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1189:National Heritage List for England
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579:Chancellor of the Exchequer
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957:Victor Watts (ed.),
200:Sovereign state
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1084:The Daily Telegraph
872:Horton: the surname
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595:George Winterbottom
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792:Sir Robert Gunning
770:Frank Lloyd Wright
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286:UK Parliament
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888:References
798:Allan Lamb
782:Roy Clarke
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429:The church
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405:Topography
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