Castle Drogo

We called in at Castle Drogo, Lutyens’s last, great, romantic castle on a hill north of Dartmoor, where Julius Drewe, who made a fortune out of the Home and Colonial Stores, established himself in castellated splendour; but the house is being radically restored because Lutyens was hopeless at plumbing, so there was not much to see except the long corridors of his extended house plan:-

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