Harewood House from
A Complete History
of the County of York by Thomas Allen (1828–30),
showing the house before Barry altered the facades
and added an extra storey to the pavilions.
Harewood House is
a country house near Harewood, West Yorkshire, England.
It is a member of Treasure Houses of England, a
marketing consortium for the ten foremost stately
homes in England.
The house was built from 1759 to 1770 for the Lascelles
family, who had bought the estate after making their
fortune in the West Indies through Customs positions,
slave trading and lending money to planters. John
Carr was one of the architects. The other architect
was Robert Adam. Most of the furniture is by the
most famous English furniture designer of the 18th
century, Thomas Chippendale, who came from nearby
Otley.
Lancelot Brown ("Capability" Brown) designed
the grounds to which Sir Charles Barry later added
a grand terrace.
The house is still the family home of the Lascelles
family. Lord Harewood, George Lascelles, is the
seventh Earl. His mother was Mary, Princess Royal,
daughter of King George V and Queen Mary.
