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![[picture: 195.---Condover Hall]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/EnglishHomes-LateTudor/wm/big/195-condover-hall-the-west-side-170x200.jpg "[picture: 195.---Condover Hall]")
![[picture: Wollaton Hall From the North-East]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/EnglishHomes-LateTudor/wm/big/186-217-Wollaton-Hall-From-the-North-East-q75-151x200.jpg "[picture: Wollaton Hall From the North-East]")
Wollaton Hall From the North-East
Wollaton Hall was designed by Robert Smythson and completed in the 1588. It has been described as the first English house to abandon the traditional central courtyard; instead it had a high-ceilinged [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: 261.---Knole, Kent.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/EnglishHomes-LateTudor/wm/big/EHIIIv1Tudor-pll261Knole-299x200.jpg "[picture: 261.---Knole, Kent.]")
![[picture: 262.---Knole, Kent.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/EnglishHomes-LateTudor/wm/big/EHIIIv1Tudor-pl262Knole-156x200.jpg "[picture: 262.---Knole, Kent.]")
Plate 260 - Bourchier’s Gate-house.
The home of the Sackvilles since 1603; it was first built in and around 1457 by Archbishop Bourchier.
[$]![[picture: 311.---Avebury Manor, Wiltshire]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/EnglishHomes-LateTudor/wm/big/311-ChurchStableandHouse-352x200.jpg "[picture: 311.---Avebury Manor, Wiltshire]")
![[picture: 312.---Avebury Manor, Wiltshire]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/EnglishHomes-LateTudor/wm/big/312-TheAncientCutBoxTreeOnTheSouthLawn-267x200.jpg "[picture: 312.---Avebury Manor, Wiltshire]")
![[picture: 335.---The Great Chamber, Looking North.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/EnglishHomes-LateTudor/wm/big/335-The-Great-Chamber,-Looking-North-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: 335.---The Great Chamber, Looking North.]")
335.—The Great Chamber, Looking North.
“It will be noticed that the ceiling is a reproduction of that in the ballroom at Knole (Fig. 294). The panelling is similar to that in the dining-room below, and all came out of the Quenby attics. It forms a beautiful and subdued background for the interesting pictures and [...]
