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
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Hardwick Hall
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Hardwick Hall is an architecturally significant Elizabethan-era country house in Derbyshire, England. A leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, the Renaissance style home was built between 1
Prodigy house
…characteristic was the large area of glass – a new feature that superseded the need for easily defended external walls and announced the owners' wealth. Hardwick Hall, for example, was proverbially described as "Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall." Many other smaller prodigy houses were built by businessmen and…
"More glass than wall"
Lady Spencer's Walk
Hardwick Old Hall
Hardwick Hall from Hardwick Old Hall