humphry repton observed that brown ""fancied himself an architect"", 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 6th earl of coventry, in which instance he was likely following sketches by the gentleman amateur sanderson miller.