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Oakly Park

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is a circular room dating from the younger Haycock's work, although Cockerell added a "saucer dome". The staircase hall is entirely his, as is the "exquisitely restrained" library. The conservatory was the last element of the first phase of building, the breakfast and dining rooms dating from the
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in Greece provided inspiration for some of the decoration at Oakly Park. Work on the house was undertaken in two stages, between 1819 and 1826, and a second phase from 1836.
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Cockerell's conservatory was demolished in the 1920s, but the remainder of the early 19th century garden and park is largely intact. Oakly Park is a
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as is the garden and park in which it stands. Other listed structures within the estate, all designated Grade II, include the
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Oakly Park remains the private home of the Windsor-Clive family, the house presently being home to Lord Windsor, heir to the
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The History of Parliament records Clive as "an affable, somewhat indolent and generally silent member".
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and gates at the start of the carriage drive and a bridge on the carriage drive where it crosses the
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to remodel the house. Clive and Cockerell had toured Europe together, and co-founded the
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through his wife, he had little need for Oakly and its use passed to his second son,
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The origins of the present house are a mansion rebuilt and extended by
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second, when Clive, by then Windsor-Clive following his marriage to
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in the mid-18th century. In 1771, Powis sold the estate to
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in 1818, the following year Clive commissioned his friend
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Grade II* listed house in Shropshire, United Kingdom
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Bromfield
Shropshire
52°23′00″N 2°45′21″W / 52.3832°N 2.7559°W / 52.3832; -2.7559
Charles Robert Cockerell
Neoclassical
Robert Clive (1789–1854)
Listed Building
Listed Building
Listed Building
Listed Building
National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens
Oakly Park is located in Shropshire
Bromfield
Shropshire
Charles Robert Cockerell
Bank of England
Robert Henry Clive
Earls of Plymouth
Grade II* listed building
William Baker
1st Earl of Powis
Robert Clive
Edward
John Hiram Haycock
Clive's mother, Margaret
Henrietta Herbert
Powis Castle
Robert
Member of Parliament

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