The State Room Schedule

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A state room in a large European mansion is usually one of a suite of very grand rooms which were designed to impress.

In houses from earlier than around 1720 which survived without major structural alteration, the state rooms sometimes became a meaningless succession of drawing rooms and the original intention was lost.

There was usually an odd number of state rooms for the following reason: At the centre of the facade, the largest and most lavish room, (for example at Wilton House the famed Double Cube Room), or as at Blenheim Palace (right) this was a gathering place for the court of the honoured guest.

The state apartments are the two sets of rooms either side of the principal dining room (Saloon) marked "B".

Leading symmetrically from the centre room on either side were often one or two suites of smaller, but still very grand state rooms, often in enfilade, for the sole use of the occupant of the final room at each end of the facade - the state bedroom.

State rooms are usually only found in the houses of the upper echelons of the aristocracy, those who were likely to entertain a head of state.

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