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Claud Stephen Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore (15 January 1911 – 29 March 1994) was an English architect specialising in larger country houses who succeeded to his family's title in 1990.
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Pitt Club.
He was married to Anne Elizabeth Dorrien-Smith (b.1911), daughter of Major Arthur Dorrien-Smith. Their son Francis Stephen Phillimore (b. 1944) succeeded as 5th Baron Phillimore.
Architectural Works
These include: * Knowsley Hall, Prescot, Merseyside, (1953–54), reduction and reconstruction of the hall; construction of the New House in the grounds. *11 Binney Street,Mayfair
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, London (1957), interior remodelled with Aubrey Jenkins for Viscount Ridley
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.
*The Dower House in the grounds of Arundel Castle
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, Sussex
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, (1959).
*The Durdans, Epsom, Surrey
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(1950s), reduction and reconstruction.
*Killruddery House
Killruddery House (also spelled "Kilruddery") is a large country house on the southern outskirts of Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland, approximately south of Dublin.
, Bray, County Wicklow
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, Republic of Ireland (1950s), reduction and reconstruction.
*Rademon House, Crossgar, County Down - 1950s, rebuilt after a fire.
* Aske Hall, North Yorkshire, (1963-4), demolition of ballroom and reduction of wings.
*Tusmore House, Oxfordshire
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, (1964), demolished.
* Villa Foscari near Venice, Italy: renovation work; Phillimore inherited the house in 1965 from Alberto Clinton Landsberg, but sold it to architect Prof. Antonio ("Tonci"), Count Foscari (b. 1938), in 1973.
*23 St Anselm's Place, Mayfair, London, (1966–67) as a private residence for the fourth Duke of Westminster.
*Cubberley, a house in the Wye Valley, Herefordshire (1971), replacing an earlier house.
Arms
References
1911 births 1994 deaths 20th-century English architects Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) officers {{UK-architect-stub