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Built between 1607 and 1612 by the wool merchant Walter Jones on land bought from Robert Catesby (later of the Gunpowder Plot), Chastleton has been remarkably little altered since. The Long Gallery still has its original plaster barrel-vaulted ceiling, and the topiary garden has been clipped to the same shapes for two centuries.
The National Trust took on the house in 1991 with the explicit aim of conserving rather than restoring it, leaving the wear of four centuries visible. The lawn outside is the spot where Walter Jones Whitmore drew up the rules of modern croquet in 1865.
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