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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]]

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==Victorian Cliveden==
===Sir George Warrender===
After the fire of 1795 the house remained a ruin for the first quarter of the 19th century until, in 1824 the estate was purchased by [[Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet]]. To rebuild Cliveden, Warrender selected [[William Burn]], a Scottish architect, and decided on a design for a two-storey mansion designed with entertaining on a grand scale in mind.

===George, 2nd Duke of Sutherland===
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[[Image:Clivedenmorris edited.jpg|thumb|right|A nineteenth-century engraving of the 1851 house from the parterre]]
Warrender died in 1849 and the house was sold to the Sutherland family, headed by the second Duke. Sutherland had only been in possession of the estate for a few months when, in the same year as his acquisition the house burned down for the second time in its history. The cause this time appears to have been negligence on the part of the decorators.<ref>N.T. Guide, 1994, p.28.</ref>

[[Image:Clivedenmorris edited.jpg|thumb|right|A nineteenth-century engraving of the 1851 house from the parterre]]⏎
The Duke was prompt in commissioning the architect [[Charles Barry]] to rebuild Cliveden in the style of an Italianate villa. Barry, whose most famous project is arguably the Houses of Parliament, [[Westminster]], was inspired by the outline of the two earlier houses for his design. The third (and present) house on the site was completed in 1851-2 and its exterior appearance has little changed to this day. The {{convert|100|ft|m|adj=on}}-tall clock tower, which is actually a water tower (still working to th(contracted; show full)[[Category:Historic house museums in Buckinghamshire]]

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