This was a rare opportunity to visit a house built for Robert Clough in 1581. Following the destruction of Caus Castle in the civil war, the Royalist Sir Henry Frederick Thynne bought Minsterley in 1634 and enlarged it.
The title Marquess of Bath was created in 1789, for Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount of Weymouth.
In 1869, on his Grand Tour, the 4th Marquess of Bath commissioned the huge Italian marble fireplace for his bedroom. The fireplace is thought to have been worth more than the house itself when it was installed.
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