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house as standing back from Full Street within a small rectangular court. The wide staircase ascended from a small hall to the drawing room; on either side of the drawing room were small panelled rooms which had served as the bedrooms for the prince and his officers. A spacious drawing room on the ground floor (altered by
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noted the drawing room on the first floor, the room in which the final council of war was held, as being "…unaltered, it is all over wainscotted with ancient oak, very dark and handsome…". It was reached by a dark oak staircase, with carved balustrades. Another visitor, a Mrs. Thomson, described the
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purchased it. Strutt lived there until his death in 1797. The last owner was a lawyer, William Eaton
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Exeter House, the mansion house which communicates with the Full Street, from its connection with the history of this county, in the year 1745. At that time it belonged to the Earl of Exeter, and Prince
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when the museum opened in 1879. In 2021 the exhibition of the Exeter Room in Derby was reconfigured and the mannequin of the prince was gifted to the Battle of
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Council of War in a fine old oak wainscoted room (now used as a drawing-room) before he determined to abandon his project. This house was subsequently occupied by an ancestor of the late celebrated
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