Ickworth House
Ickworth House is a country house outside Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, in England. It is a remarkable neoclassical structure topped by a giant rotunda in a park laid out by Capability Brown.
Ickworth House is under the care of the National Trust, and, as part of the "Ickworth House, Park & Garden" property, is open to the public.
The front of Ickworth House is over 600 feet long. The rotunda was built to the designs of Mario Asprucci, an Italian architect. Begun for the eccentric 4th Earl of Bristol in 1795, the house was still unfinished when the Earl died in 1803 and completed by the 5th Earl of Bristol.
It contains paintings by Velazquez and Titian, as well as an unrivalled series of 18th-century family portraits by artists such as Gainsborough and Reynolds. In addition, a considerable collection of fine Georgian silver, Regency furniture, and porcelain is on display.
There is a hotel in the East Wing, which opened in 2002.