 West Wycombe has been described as " one of the most theatrical and Italianate mid @-@ 18th century buildings in England " . Of all the 18th @-@ century country houses , its façades replicate in undiluted form not only the classical villas of Italy on which Palladianism was founded , but also the temples of antiquity on which Neoclassicism was based . The Greek Doric of the house 's west portico is the earliest example of the Greek revival in Britain . 
