Castle Howard, Country house in Yorkshire, England.
Castle Howard is an English Baroque country house in Henderskelfe, Yorkshire, with a central dome and two balanced wings. The north facade shows Doric columns, while the south facade carries Corinthian order.
Construction began in 1699 under architect John Vanbrugh for the Earl of Carlisle and took over ten years for the main building. A fire in November 1940 destroyed large parts including the dome, before public opening in 1952 followed restoration.
The name comes from the Howard family, who have lived here for over 300 years. Among the collections are more than 300 pieces of Sèvres, Meissen and Delft porcelain, Roman statues bought in Italy, and three embroidered textiles designed by William Morris showing Lucretia, Hippolyta and Helen of Troy.
The house sits on a ridge, with the garden front facing south over lawns that run down to a lake on either side. The walled garden and the 514,000 m² arboretum, planted from 1975, have separate entrances from the main house. The East Wing, re-roofed after the 1940 fire, remains a shell and is not part of the furnished route.
The dome collapsed in the 1940 fire, and Canadian artist Scott Medd recreated Pellegrini's lost ceiling painting, The Fall of Phaeton, on its underside in the early 1960s. The East Wing, gutted in the same blaze, was re-roofed but remains a shell.
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