Elizabethan house

Hardwick Hall, cut away Elizabethan Architecture The large majority of houses built in the Elizabethan period were still timber framed, or built from local stone, as in the earlier Tudor period. I won’t dwell on timber framed building for long as I gave plenty of examples in the previous post, but I do want to show you a few late Tudor timber framed buildings. This is a rare survivor in London, a timber framed row of buildings in Holborn. Many buildings such as this were lost in the Great…

Burghley House is a grand Elizabethan mansion located near Stamford in Lincolnshire, England. It was built by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, who was the chief advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. Construction began in 1555 and was largely completed by 1587. The house is a prime example of Elizabethan architecture, known for its intricate designs and extensive use of classical motifs. The house is set within a large park designed by the famous landscape architect Capability Brown…

Burghley House is a grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the Cecil family.

Longstowe Hall, Cambridgeshire — the home of William and Mercedes Bevan — is an Elizabethan house that was remodelled by an Edwardian industrialist who created superb interiors in the aesthetic of 17th-century Dutch art. Jeremy Musson takes a look; photographs by Will Pryce for Country Life.

It is unimaginable to picture Longleat House in any setting other than the one it so perfectly occupies.

This fine house of about 1600 has been carefully renovated to provide modern services in a historic context. Clive Aslet reports on Stockton House.

While not common, wattle and daub houses did not have to be whitewashed. Wattle and daub were a fairly inexpensive way to build homes from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The walls between the large timbers of a structure were made of wattle (sticks woven in a loose pattern) and daub (a mixture of mud, straw and animal manure that was packed onto the wattle) then covered in plaster. The upper story of the house to the right is a traditional style while those to the left have more…