Day three of the Vanbrugh tour at Chatsworth, without many Vanbrugh connections, apart from the fact that Vanbrugh invited himself to stay there for five days in the summer of 1699 when he was working on the original designs for Castle Howard, showing the Duke of Devonshire sketches of what he proposed.

The house would have been as shown in Kip and Knyff’s engraving of 1699 – two new fronts complete, as designed by Talman, but the entrance front to the west still Tudor:-

The Duke of Devonshire compared what Vanbrugh proposed to a greenhouse.  This (below) was the first Chatsworth greenhouse, which could indeed have been added as wings to the house:-

I also hadn’t realised that Samuel Watson who did so much of the detailed woodcarving, particularly in the chapel, left detailed drawings:-

Here’s some of the woodcarving:-