Jacobean architecture
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The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style. It is named after King James VI and I, with whose reign it is associated. At the start o
Castle Bromwich Hall, Birmingham
Charlton House, Greenwich (1607-12)
The Jacobean east wing of Crewe Hall, Cheshire, built in 1615–36
Audley End House, Essex (1614)
Prodigy house
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Prodigy houses are large and showy English country houses built by courtiers and other wealthy families, either "noble palaces of an awesome scale" or "proud, ambitious heaps" according to taste. The
Jacobean architecture
…sometimes called Stuart architecture, or English Baroque (though the latter term may be regarded as starting later). Courtiers continued to build large prodigy houses, even though James spent less time on summer progresses around his realm than Elizabeth had. The influence of Flemish and German Northern Mannerism…
Wollaton Hall, Nottingham
Longleat House, Wiltshire
Burghley House, Cambridgeshire
Hatfield House, Hertfordshire