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Portal:Cliveden
{{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)al Trust also received from the Astors one of their largest endowments<ref name='NT10'>{{Harvnb|National Trust|1971|p=10}}</ref> (£250,000 in 1942 which is equivalent to £{{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|250000|1942}}}}<ref>UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from [http://www.measureworth.org/ukearncpi/  Measure Worth: UK CPI]</ref> today). The Astors ceased to live at Cliveden in 1968, shortly after the [[Profumo Affair]] and Bill Astor's death.

==Interior==

[[Image:Cliveden Hall 1.jpg|thumb|left|The Hall looking towards the staircase]]⏎
[[Image:Cliveden Hall 2.jpg|thumb|left|The Hall showing the fireplace]]
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The interior of the house today is very different from its original appearance in 1851–52. This is mainly due to the 1st Lord Astor who radically altered the interior layout and decoration c. 1894–95. Whereas Barry's original interior for the Sutherlands had included a square entrance-hall, a morning room and a separate stair-well, Lord Astor wanted a more impressive entrance to Cliveden so he had all three rooms knocked into one large one (the '''Great Hall'''). His aim w(contracted; show full)ncaustic tiles (given to the Sutherlands by the factory) but Nancy Astor had them removed in 1906 and the present flagstones laid.<ref name='NT42'>{{Harvnb|National Trust|1994|p=42}}</ref> Above the staircase is a painted ceiling by French artist Auguste Hervieu which depicts the Sutherland's children painted as the four seasons. This is the only surviving element of Barry's 1851&ndash;2 interior and it is believed that Lord Astor considered it too beautiful to remove.


[[Image:Cliveden Hall 1.jpg|thumb|left|The Hall looking towards the staircase]]⏎
The French Dining Room is so called because the eighteenth-century [[Rococo]] panelling (or boiseries) came from the [[Chateau d'Asnieres]] near Paris, a chateau which was leased to [[Louis XV of France|Louis XV]] and his mistress [[Madame de Pompadour]] as a hunting lodge. When the panelling came up for sale in Paris in 1897, the 1st Lord Astor recognised that it would exactly fit this room at Cliveden. The gilded panelling on a turquoise ground contains carvings of [[hare]]s, [[pheasant]]s, hunting d(contracted; show full)

Also on the ground floor is the library, panelled in cedar wood, which the Astors used to call the "cigar box"<ref>Crathorne, 1995, p.181.</ref>, and, next door, Nancy Astor's [[boudoir]]. Upstairs are five bedrooms and on the second floor another five. The East wing was and still is guest accommodation, whereas the West wing was domestic offices but in 1994 these were converted into more bedrooms.
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    The National Trust tour only includes the Great Hall and French Dining Room.

==Cliveden Hotel==
[[Image:Cliveden, June 2005.JPG|thumb|right|Cliveden Hotel from the parterre]]
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