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Wentworth Woodhouse is a Country House in the village of Wentworth near Rotherham , South Yorkshire , England . Set in a 150 park (0.6 km²) estate, its 606 ft. (185 m) long East Front is the longest Façade in England. The building contains 240 rooms and covers over 2.5 acres (10,000 m²). The Baroque style, brick-built Western portion of the house was begun in 1725, replacing an older structure that was once the home of Thomas Wentworth . In ca.1734, before this West Front was finished, Wentworth's grandson Thomas Watson-Wentworth commissioned Henry Flitcroft to build the East Front extension. The massive length of the East Front is thought to have been the result of a longstanding feud with the Stainborough branch of the Wentworth family, who lived at the nearby Wentworth Castle . The castle was itself undergoing an extension at the time. The house was later the home of Watson-Wentworth's grandson Charles Watson-Wentworth , the 11th Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom . It subsequently passed to his sister's family, the Fitzwilliams, who in ca. 1782 added an extra storey to parts of the East Front. From 1949 to 1974 the house became the Lady Mabel College of Physical Education (named after the sister of the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam), which trained female PE teachers. The college later merged with Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University ), and the house has since passed through the hands of a number of private owners. The house is a Grade I listed building. Its size makes it very expensive to maintain, which is perhaps the main reason why the building has never been bought up by a charity or the local council as a tourist attraction. The grounds (and surrounding area), which are largely open to the public, contain a number of Follies including:
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