The Marble Hall is in the centre of the north front. The family wing is a self-contained residence, meant for daily living. With all the intervening doors open it is possible to stand in the Long Library and look down the full length of the southern State Rooms and see the east window of the Chapel in the opposing wing the full 344 feet (105 m) length of the house. The house is designed with a corps de logis containing the state rooms on the first floor ( piano nobile), surrounded by four wings: to the south-west the family wing, to the north-west the guest wing, to the south-east the chapel wing and to the north-east the kitchen wing. Their only child to survive infancy, Edward Coke, Viscount Coke, had died without issue in 1753. ![]() By 1769 all the men involved had died, leaving Thomas's widow, Lady Margaret Tufton, Countess of Leicester (1700–1775), to oversee the completion of the house. The house was built between 17, with work on the interiors only completed in 1771. The design of the house was a collaborative effort between Thomas Coke, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, and William Kent, with Matthew Brettingham the elder acting as the on-site architect. To complete the scheme it was necessary to send Matthew Brettingham the younger to Rome between 17 to purchase further works of art. ![]() The art collection of Holkham Hall in Norfolk, England, remains very largely that which the original owner intended the house to display the house was designed around the art collection acquired (a few works were commissioned) by Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, during his Grand Tour of Italy during 1712–18. 'A' Marble Hall 'B' The Saloon 'C' Statue Gallery, with octagonal tribunes at each end 'D' Dining room ( the classical apse, gives access to the tortuous and discreet route by which the food reached the dining room from the distant kitchen), 'E' The South Portico 'F' The Library in the self-contained family wing. Simplified, unscaled plan of the piano nobile at Holkham, showing the four symmetrical wings at each corner of the principal block.
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