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Looks can be deceptive. From the outside, Herefordshire’s Eastnor Castle, designed by architect Robert Smirke in a Norman revival style, is imposing – brutal even – all 4,000 tonnes of stone and turrets. Yet on the inside is a mind-boggling mélange of gothic, Italian renaissance and regency baronial styles. Between the handpainted coffered ceilings, the Pugin scheme in the Gothic Drawing Room, multi-panel tapestries and marquetry, every surface is dense with decoration.
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