I went on a day trip to see and study King’s Weston, one of Vanbrugh’s less familiar houses, although important as dating from 1711 when work on Blenheim had pretty well stopped.
It’s a curious mixture of conventional façades, but with Vanbrugh’s characteristic tweaks, including the urns on the parapet and the brilliant, but idiosyncratic arcaded chimneys on the roof:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
This looks great, Charles. Love those chimneys.
Yes, more interesting than I’d expected. Charles
What an amazing variation on an otherwise all-too-common theme. I wish I’d been there to see it in person.