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Audley End House: Country House: 17th century Partly complete An early-17th-century country house just outside Saffron Walden. It was once a palace in all but name and renowned as one of the finest Jacobean houses in England. It is now only one-third of its original size, but is still large. It remains the family seat of the Lords Braybrooke.
These could be called the true English country house. Wilton House, one of England's grandest houses, is in a remarkably similar vein; although, while the Drydens, mere squires, at Canons Ashby employed a local architect, at Wilton the mighty Earls of Pembroke employed the finest architects of the day: first Holbein, 150 years later Inigo Jones ...
Wulfhall or Wolfhall is an early 17th-century manor house in Burbage parish, Wiltshire, England It is north-east of Burbage village, and about 5 miles (8 km) south-east of Marlborough . A previous manor house on the same site, at that time in the parish of Great Bedwyn , was the seat of the Seymour family , a member of which, Jane Seymour , was ...
Pages in category "17th-century architecture in England" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Verulam House, St Albans (17th century) W.
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd ... Pages in category "Houses completed in the 17th century" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 215 ...
From the 18th century, landowners and their servants would move to a townhouse during the social season when balls and other society gatherings took place. [1] From the 18th century, most townhouses were terraced; it was one of the successes of Georgian architecture to persuade the rich to buy terraced houses, especially if they were in a ...
Ashdown House from Parterre garden. Ashdown House (also known as Ashdown Park) is a 17th-century country house in the civil parish of Ashbury in the English county of Oxfordshire. Until 1974 the house was in the county of Berkshire, and the nearby village of Lambourn remains in that county.
Bolehyde Manor is a 17th-century manor house at Allington, north-west of Chippenham, in Wiltshire, England.It is a Grade II* listed building within the Allington conservation area [1] of Chippenham Without parish.