Trumpeters' House (Astoft)
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Richmond and Sheen – Trumpeters' House
c. 1703 - Work begins on a house for Richard Hill, brother of Queen Anne's confidante Mrs Masham, which is named for two stone trumpeters either side of the portico (Pevsner 2, 524)
1848 - Metternich and his family leave Vienna, in this year of revolutions, and live in Trumpeters' House until October 1849 (Dunbar, 186)
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