Cronkhill, Atcham, Shropshire, designed by John Nash, is "the earliest Italianate villa in England".

[1] Drawing on influences from the Italian Campagna and the Picturesque, including the art of Claude Lorrain, it began an architectural style that was hugely influential in England in the first half of the nineteenth century.

[4] Mansbridge considers that the design was "almost certainly inspired" by Claude Lorrain's painting "Landscape near Rome with a View of the Ponte Molle.

[6] Cronkhill, along with Attingham Park, was gifted to the National Trust in the post-war period.

[1] The walls are now white stucco,[4] although the colour may originally have been designed to imitate ashlar.