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| 1710 |
| | | Christopher Wren's new domed St Paul's cathedral is completed in London | |
|  | St.Paul's Cathedral
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| 1715 |
| | | Colen Campbell creates interest in the Palladian style in Britain with the publication of his Vitruvius Britannicus | |
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| 1717 |
| | | The earl of Burlington employs Colen Campbell to remodel his Piccadilly house in the Palladian style | |
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| 1750 |
| | | Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London | |
|  | Strawberry Hill admission ticket
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| 1757 |
| | | Robert Adam returns to Britain after two years in Rome with a repertoire of classical themes which he mingles to form a new British neoclassicism | |
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| 1767 |
| | | Work begins on Edinburgh's New Town, to the design of the 23-year-old architect James Craig | |
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| 1792 |
| | | Charlotte Square in Edinburgh begins to be built to the design of Robert Adam | |
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| 1805 |
| | | With advice from Thomas Daniell, Samuel Pepys Cockerell builds himself a house, Sezincote, with a roof line of fanciful Indian domes | |
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| 1815 |
| | | English architect John Nash designs the exotic Royal Pavilion in Brighton for the Prince Regent | |
|  | Royal Pavilion, Brighton
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| 1822 |
| | | Walter Scott begins to transform Abbotsford into a romantic house that he refers to as his 'conundrum castle' | |
|  | Abbotsford House
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