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While the excavations and archaeological report were a planning condition for the refurbishment of the house, the owners additionally funded other private digs throughout the lands in the years leading up to the excavation of the passage tomb. The German government have also funded various other digs
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The house itself is a 5-bay 2-storey (plus additional mezzanine to rear) over basement property with a rusticated ground floor. The limestone ashlar fronted second floor features windows which are topped by alternating pediments while the house is topped with an ashlar limestone parapet and a hipped
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that the building is most notable. The work is now usually attributed to the stuccodore and architect Robert West who is said to have worked on other buildings for George Darley such as 86 St
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Pidgeon, finally died only in 2011 whereupon the property was put up for sale by the executor.
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In July 2018, it was revealed that during restoration and renovations of the house and terraced gardens, archaeologists discovered that it had been constructed directly over a 5,500 year-old megalithic
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In July 2018 it was announced that a megalithic passage tomb had been rediscovered directly underneath the house during renovations of the house and gardens.
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The original main dining room of the house has some of the finest and most elaborate stucco work in
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