At Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, where now stands a small four-story tower with an attached two-story wing, there once stood one of the most extraordinary houses ever built. The Fonthill Abbey was a house built at a fantastic scale. The central tower rose to a dizzying height of 280 feet, the tallest ever put on a private house. The front doors were 30 feet high and windows were taller still at 50 feet. The curtains that hung from the four arches in the central room were 80 feet long. Staircases were as wide as they were long, and the view down the central corridor stretched for over three hundred feet.
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Fonthill Abbey. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Source: amusingplanet.com