The phrase "a small palace" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a building or residence that is grand or luxurious but smaller in size compared to a traditional palace.
Example: "The couple decided to renovate their property into a small palace, complete with elegant furnishings and beautiful gardens."
Alternatives: "a modest mansion" or "a petite castle".
He put some logs into the fireplace in his office — a beautiful pale room in a small palace on the Place Beauvau — and sat down and waited.
The village of Abhaneri has a small palace and a temple, the locals live in mud huts, are very friendly and will proudly show you their homes.
My modest two-bedroom, two-bath Woolf house, built for the film editor Robert Seiter in 1953, is designed like a small palace.
Within the nearby Savvino Storozhevskiy Monastery stands the Rozhdestvensky Sobor (Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral; 1405) with an interior of 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century paintings, and a small palace built for Tsar Alexis Mikhaylovich in 1652 54.
A small palace lay to the south of the main building, and a further suite of rooms for the king was installed in the castellated gate building on the east side of the precinct.
1938 King Zog May Travel to U.S. DURAZZO, Albania — King Zog I and Queen Geraldine, who passed their first day of married life here in a small palace overlooking the sea, may complete their wedding trip in the United States.
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This was built on the slopes of a ridge overlooking the sea, on top of which stood a little "palace" with a small open court in the centre and a public square beside it on the sheltered landward side.
Today, the small palace serves as a memorial to its most famous accompaniment, Marie Antoinette.
As viewed in a rendering, it could be a small country palace in France, although squeezed into an urban site.
AFTER passing through the Rumi Darvaza, it is a short ride or walk to a small summer palace, a rambling 19th-century house built in the classic bungalow style popular across north India.
