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{{about|the British mansion|Benjamin Chew's mansion in Germantown, Pennsylvania|Cliveden (Benjamin Chew House)}}
[[Image:Cliveden-2382.jpg|thumb|400px|View looking north from the Ring in the Parterre showing Terrace Pavilion and Clock Tower to the left with Lower Terrace and Borghese Balustrade below]]

(contracted; show full)fers to the dean or valley which cuts through the estate to  the west of the house. The gardens and woodlands (375 acres) are open to the public, together with parts of the house on certain days. There have been three houses on this site: the first, built in 1666, burned down in 1795 and the second house (1824) was also destroyed by fire, in 1849. The present Grade 1 listed house was built in 1851 by the architect [[Charles Barry]] for [[George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland]].


The hotel owners publish the address of the hotel incorrectly as Cliveden, Taplow, Berkshire which is incorrect as the house lies on the east (Buckinghamshire) bank of the river Thames. Such mistakes are common throughout England even though postal counties are no longer used by Royal Mail. However the National Trust does not make such a mistake, correctly listing the hotel as being in Taplow, Maidenhead (its post town), Buckinghamshire.⏎
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==Present house==
[[Image:Cliveden 02.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The North front.]]
Designed by Sir Charles Barry in 1851 to replace a house previously destroyed by fire, the present house is a blend of the English [[Palladian architecture|Palladian]] style and the Roman Cinquecento.<ref>Crathorne, 1995, p.29.</ref> The Victorian three-storey mansion sits on a 400-foot-long, 20-foot-high brick terrace or viewing platform (only visible from the South side) which dates from the mid-seventeenth century.(contracted; show full)[[Category:Historic house museums in Buckinghamshire]]

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