Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire was built for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, later 1st Baron Scarsdale. The infobox lists Matthew Brettingham, Robert Adam and James Paine. Paine and Brettingham began the work, and Adam later took charge of the mansion's construction. The infobox gives 1759 to 1765, but the text says the saloon was finished in 1763 and the grand staircase not until 1922.
The north front is Palladian and about 351 feet (107 m) long, with a rusticated ground floor and smooth stone above. Adam designed the neoclassical south front. The marble hall measures 67 by 37 feet and is 40 feet high, with twenty fluted pink Nottingham alabaster columns and an inlaid Italian marble floor.
The Curzon family held the estate from at least 1297. The house was offered to the War Office in 1939 and later served as a signals intelligence station. It passed to the National Trust after 1977. The article gives no hours.
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