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Hatfield House is a Grade I listed [1] country house set in a large park, the Great Park, on the eastern side of the town of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. The present Jacobean house, a leading example of the prodigy house , was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James I .
Notable buildings include a number of early 19th-century worker's houses, multiple cottages associated with the Hibernia House, and the Hibernia Methodist Church, which was erected in 1841. The contributing site contains the ruins of a grist mill. This historic district also includes the separately listed Hibernia House. [2]
Cecil demolished much of the palace and built a new house nearby. [2] The oak was located near to one of the avenues leading to the new house. [4] George III visited Hatfield House in 1800 and may have viewed the oak. [3] Victoria and Albert visited in 1846, by which time the tree was enclosed by a fence and protected by a lead covering.
There are 19 extant historic houses of which 16 were constructed within the current boundaries of Fairmount Park, while three of the houses were moved to the park from elsewhere in the city—Cedar Grove Mansion from Frankford, Hatfield House from Nicetown, and Letitia Street House from Old City. All of the 19 houses were designed and used as ...
The Stuart dynasty's first sovereign, James VI and I, in 1607, was to exchange Hatfield Palace against Theobalds House, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury's house. North facing view of Hatfield House. He decided to wreck three wings of the building and use the bricks to construct Cecil's new house which was named as Hatfield House, a Jacobean ...
St. EtheldredaHatfield Churches by Peter Massingham (2009) Accessed May 2016 Archived 9 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine; St. Etheldreda's 'Parishes: Hatfield', in A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 91–111. published at British History Online pp 91–111 Accessed May 2016
Later, long galleries were built, sometimes in a revivalist spirit, as at Harlaxton Manor, an extravagant early-Victorian house in Jacobean style, and sometimes to house a large art collection, as at Buckingham Palace, which has a long interior space lit from above, called the Picture Gallery.
Hatfield House is a 17th-century manor house in Hertfordshire, England, a prime example of Jacobean architecture. Hatfield House may also refer to: The Hatfield House, a pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Hatfield House (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), United States, a historic house; Hartfield House, Dumbarton, Scotland, a British Army base