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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 .
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Hardwick Hall Hotel. Hardwick Hall in Sedgefield, County Durham is a building of historical significance and is a Grade II listed building on the English Heritage Register. [1] A major part of it was built in the late 1700s but it is possible that some of it dates from about 1634. It was the residence for many notable people for two centuries.
Hardwick Hall was also the site of a one-day music event, Hardwick Live, until 2015. [2] Hardwick Live was replaced by a larger two-day event, Down To The Woods, in 2016. [3] The new festival, which had been set to feature headline sets from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Chase and Status, was later cancelled due to the "financial climate". [4]
Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [ 1 ] There are 57 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 1 National Historic Landmark .
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.
The Sea Dog Table is one of the treasures of Hardwick Hall. It is regarded as one of the most important examples of 16th century furniture in Britain. It is a very elaborately carved table of around 1600. It has acquired some interesting historical anecdotes concerning the Cavendish family.
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