Chiswick House in London was designed by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, with William Kent, who also led the garden design. Burlington built the villa to replace a Jacobean house after a 1725 fire. The text gives 1726 to 1729, which matches the infobox. The article calls the style Neo-Palladian.
The house is brick with a Portland stone facade and a little stucco. The article describes it as a half cube, 70 by 70 by 35 feet (21 by 21 by 11 m). The house and garden cover 26.33 hectares (65.1 acres).
The villa passed to the Cavendish family and served as the Chiswick Asylum from 1892 to 1928. Middlesex County Council bought it in 1929, and it was a fire station in World War II. A V-2 rocket damaged one wing in 1944, and both wings were removed in 1956. The garden is open dawn to dusk, free of charge. The article gives no house hours.
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