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
Wollaton Hall, Nottingham
Longleat House, Wiltshire
Burghley House, Cambridgeshire
Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
Montacute House is a late Elizabethan mansion in Montacute, South Somerset, England. An example of English architecture created during a period that was moving from the medieval Gothic to the more cla
The east front
The window of the Great Chamber depicts the arms of families connected to the Phelips family by marriage
The West front of Montacute House which from the 18th century contained the principal entrance
The North and South elevations are identical and have oriel windows at second floor level; these terminate the Long Gallery