Binfield House, similar in appearance to Horace Warpole's Strawberry Hill House near Twickenham (Grade II listed) was built in 1776 and for nearly 150 years was rented out to a number of tenants including the well known historian Catharina Macaulay Graham whose work was greatly admired by the 1st American President George Washington, and in 1788 she travelled to America to visit him.
The antecedents of Houghton's style of architecture, known as cottage ornée, can be traced to the 'Strawberry Hill Gothic' style made popular by Horace Walpole at his fantasy castle at Strawberry Hill in the final quarter of the eighteenth century and further popularised by the writings of James Malton in his 1802 Essay on British Cottage Architecture.
It includes a late 18th century chapel built in the Strawberry Hill Gothic style for the Catholic owners of the house.
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The "Gothic House", started by Erdmannsdorff in 1774, modelled on the villa of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill, was one of the first Neo Gothic structures on the continent.
She died at her gothic villa, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, on 29 January 1816 at the age of 55 and was buried beside her husband in Great Packington.
Most instrumental to founding a new mainstream style was avant-garde 18th century neo-gothic Strawberry Hill House by Horace Walpole.