Castle Howard

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The building of Castle Howard was started in 1699 and was not to be fully completed for over 100 years, started by the 3rd
Earl of Carlisle he gave the job to John Vanburgh who at the time had never built anything in his life before! The huge dome was something that was added later on and was never intended to be built when the house was first planned, its is also unique in that no other private residence had ever had such a structure before.
A fire in the 1940s destroyed not only the original dome but also 20 upstairs rooms and all the damage wasnt fully repaired until the early 1960s.
Castle Howard was used in the highly successful TV programme Brideshead Revisited made in 1981 and shown world wide which helped put Castle Howard firmly on the map and a favourite place for visitors as 200,000 people visit each year.