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Robert Adam's most complete house, remodelled for a banking family in the 1760s down to the door handles, in a park beside the M4.
Osterley was built in the 1570s by Sir Thomas Gresham, the merchant who founded the Royal Exchange, and Elizabeth I dined here. In 1761 the Child family, bankers of Fleet Street, hired Robert Adam to make the old red-brick house fit for the richest heiress in England, and over twenty years he did: a double portico cut through the front, and a run of state rooms in which he designed everything, the ceilings, the carpets that answer them, the furniture, the door handles and the Etruscan Dressing Room painted after the Greek vases then being dug up in Italy, which Horace Walpole thought went too far. Nothing was changed afterwards, because the family had other houses, and the Earl of Jersey gave it to the National Trust in 1949 with the contents intact, which makes it the most complete Adam interior anywhere. The house opens for part of the year; the 350 acres of park and the Tudor stables, with the lakes and the café, are free every day.
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