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'Gothic fantasy' to be restored

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Once the most famous house in Georgian England, Horace Walpole's gothic fantasy of Strawberry Hill in Twickenham is to be restored at a cost of £9m.

Arts editor Will Gompertz has had a look around the house before the restoration begins.


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