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Lord Burlington's Palladian villa of 1729, built to show his art and his ideas rather than to live in, with Kent's gardens free around it.
Richard Boyle, third Earl of Burlington, came back from Italy convinced that English building had gone wrong since Inigo Jones, and in 1729 he finished this villa at Chiswick as the argument: a domed cube on the pattern of Palladio's Villa Rotonda, with hardly a bedroom, meant for his pictures, his books and the people he wanted to persuade. William Kent did the rooms, gilded and velvet-hung under the dome, and then the grounds, where he and Burlington broke the formal garden into lawns, groves, a winding river and temples, one of the first landscape gardens in England and the model for what followed. The Devonshires inherited it and Georgiana, the fifth Duke's duchess, made it the Whigs' country retreat; Charles James Fox died here in 1806 and George Canning, the Prime Minister, in 1827. After four decades as a private asylum it was bought for the public in 1929. The gardens are free and open from seven in the morning; the house is on a ticket for part of the year, and the conservatory's camellias, planted in the 1820s, flower in February and March.
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | 10:30 – 15:30 |
| Friday | 10:30 – 15:30 |
| Saturday | 10:30 – 15:30 |
| Sunday | 10:30 – 15:30 |
Hours from the page that lists them, checked 3 September 2026.
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