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The Château Scott, located at 151 avenue Maréchal-Juin in the Californie district of Cannes, is an English Neo-Gothic residence built between 1868 and 1872 for a certain Mr Scott, to plans by the London architect Thomas Smith; the masonry work was entrusted to the Cannes contractor Scavy. The building has an asymmetrical composite plan dominated by a central square tower flanked by corner turrets and topped by a terrace edged with a crenellated parapet. It is built of red sandstone from the Estérel enhanced with pale limestone, with a portico on the north side and a colonnade on the south. The interior notably included a groin-vaulted chapel with geometric mural decoration, seven bedrooms with bathrooms on the first floor and six servants' rooms on the second. The property then passed to Mr Debionne and later to Lord Wolverton, who received the British Prime Minister William Gladstone there in early 1883, before being acquired in 1933 by Colonel Praportchetovitch. The château was converted into co-owned apartments in the 1960s and its park was divided into building plots; the building, now restored, is listed in the Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel (General Inventory of Cultural Heritage).
