 It was then largely ignored, James Stourton describing its early twentieth-century decline as "a paradigm of the reputation of the Gothic Revival".A renewed understanding and appreciation of the building, and of Burges himself, began with Charles Handley-Read's essay on Burges in Peter Ferriday's collection "Victorian Architecture", published in 1963.In 1966 Handley-Read followed this with a substantial article on the house for "Country Life", "Aladdin's Palace in Kensington".