Edward Edwards, Gallery at Strawberry Hill, pen and ink and watercolor, from Horace Walpole’s illustrated copy of A Description of the Villa…at Strawberry-Hill (Strawberry Hill, 1784). The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Strawberry Hill House, located in Richmond, on the District Line, it was the home of politician and writer Horace Walpole, his gothic masterpiece, and the inspiration behind his novel The Castle of Otranto, a book widely regarded as the first gothic novel. It is also believed to have been the first house in England to be gothic both inside and out, and that its architecture has influenced other notable buildings in the capital including the Houses of Parliament and St. Pancras International station.
