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The showpiece of this grand room is the magnificent inglenook fireplace. Designed by W R Lethaby chief assistant to the architect Richard Norman Shaw, the huge chimneypiece alone weighs ten tons and is carved in the very finest Italian marble by the firm of Farmer & Brindley. The inglenook itself is constructed with further fine and expensive marbles and contains seats covered in fine quality red leather. In Armstrong's time only turf was burned in the grate, the smoke from which was drawn away to emerge away from the house up the hillside through a chimney disguised as a rock pile.