Editing Capability Brown (section)

==Architecture==
Capability Brown produced more than 100 architectural drawings,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://research.historicengland.org.uk/Report.aspx?i=16397&ru=/Results.aspx?p=1&n=10&rn=64&ry=2019&ns=1|title=Capability Brown's Drawings: A Reference Catalogue of Drawings by Brown or his Office (c.1740s–83) Including Architectural Drawings and Landscape Scenes|last1=Rutherford|first1=Sarah|last2=Evans|first2=Ceryl|date=2019|website=Historic England|access-date=30 August 2019}}</ref> and his work in the field of architecture was a natural outgrowth of his unified picture of the [[English country house]] in its setting:
<blockquote>"In Brown's hands the house, which before had dominated the estate, became an integral part of a carefully composed landscape intended to be seen through the eye of a painter, and its design could not be divorced from that of the garden"<ref name="Colvin1995"/></blockquote>
[[Humphry Repton]] observed that Brown "fancied himself an architect",<ref>{{cite book |first1=Humphry (1752–1818)|last1=Repton |author-link=Humphry Repton |title=Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening |year=1803 |url=https://archive.org/details/observationsonth00rept |first2=John Adey (1775–1860)|last2=Repton |author-link2=John Adey Repton|publisher=T. Bensley |location=London}} at Internet Archive.</ref> but Brown's work as an architect is overshadowed by his great reputation as a designer of landscapes. Repton was bound to add: "he was inferior to none in what related to the comfort, convenience, taste and propriety of design, in the several mansions and other buildings which he planned". Brown's first country house project was the remodelling of [[Croome Court]], [[Worcestershire]], (1751–52) for the [[George William Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry|6th Earl of Coventry]], in which instance he was likely following sketches by the gentleman amateur [[Sanderson Miller]].<ref name="Colvin1995" />

Fisherwick, Staffordshire, Redgrave Hall, Suffolk, and [[Claremont (country house)|Claremont]], Surrey, were classical, while at Corsham his outbuildings are in a [[Gothic Revival|Gothic]] vein, including the [[Bath House at Corsham Court|bathhouse]]. Gothic stable blocks and decorative outbuildings, arches and garden features constituted many of his designs. From 1771 he was assisted in the technical aspects by the master builder Henry Holland, and by Henry's son [[Henry Holland (architect)|Henry Holland the architect]], whose initial career Brown supported; the younger Holland was increasingly Brown's full collaborator and became Brown's son-in-law in 1773.