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The Elizabethan era saw growing prosperity, and contemporaries remarked on the pace of secular building among the well-off. The somewhat tentative influence of Renaissance architecture is mainly seen in the great houses of courtiers, but lower down the social scale large numbers of sizeable and increasingly comfortable houses were built in developing vernacular styles by farmers and townspeople.
Drawing of Englefield House, in Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland by John Preston Neale (1824) Englefield House is an Elizabethan country house with surrounding estate at Englefield in the English county of Berkshire. The gardens are open to the public all year round on particular weekdays and ...
The prodigy houses stretch over the periods of Tudor, Elizabethan, and Jacobean architecture, though the term may be restricted to a core period of roughly 1570 to 1620. [3] Many of the grandest were built with a view to housing Elizabeth I and her large retinue as they made their annual royal progress around her realm.
Athelhampton House - built 1493–1550, early in the period Leeds Castle, reign of Henry VIII Hardwick Hall, Elizabethan prodigy house. The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture in England and Wales, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to Britain.
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is an architecturally significant country house from the Elizabethan era, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick, it was designed by the architect Robert Smythson, an exponent of the Renaissance style.
Smythson designed a number of notable houses during the Elizabethan era. Little is known about his birth and upbringing—his first mention in historical records comes in 1556, when he was stonemason for the house at Longleat, built by Sir John Thynne (ca. 1512–1580).
Burghley House (/ ˈ b ɜːr l i / [1]) 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 senior branch of the Cecil family and is Grade I listed.
Elizabethan architecture — a style of English Renaissance architecture during the Elizabethan era (1558–1603). See also the preceding Category:Tudor architecture and the succeeding Category:Jacobean architecture