Boughton House, 2000-08-29

View from the N., scanned from a slide, showing the principal N. front, built in a French-influenced style between 1683 and 1709 for Ralph, 1st duke of Montagu, who had been ambassador in Paris in 1669-72 and 1678-9. The pedimented gateway on the left was originally aligned on the centre of this section, according to James Lees-Milne, English Country Houses: Baroque (1970), p.41, and was moved by the 2nd duke. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1192643 .