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The Dell, Thurrock
The Dell is a house in Grays built in concrete - one of the earliest houses in Britain to be built in this material.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="The Dell" plaque )〕 It was built on the instructions of Alfred Russel Wallace who lived in Grays from 1872 until 1876.
==Construction==
Wallace was living in Barking in 1871, but did not like the area. He leased of land in Grays that included an old chalk pit. He decided to build a house on this land to his own specification. There was a nearby cement works and a supply of gravel on the site, so he chose to build the house in concrete. He employed Thomas Robjohn Wonnacott of Farnham as his architect because he had experience in this new material. The grounds were laid out by Wallace himself. They included a serpentine drive from the road now known as Dell Road, (College Avenue did not exist when the house was built). He described the grounds as ''"a bit of a wilderness that can be made into a splendid imitation of a Welsh valley"''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thurrock Heritage Factfiles, 30 )〕 Wallace earned the money to pay for the Dell from the natural history collections he made while in south-east Asia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Comment by Dr George Beccaloni of the Natural History Museum )〕
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