Architectural Styles
Elizabethan
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1558 – 1625
- Asymmetrical designs with irregular shapes and layouts
- Overhanging Upper Stories with decorative wooden brackets
- prominent decorative chimneys
- half-timbering frames
- intricate stone carvings
- England – Cotsworlds
- Colonial USA – Chesapeake
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Custom Hotel Examples
- Secular Buildings incl
- prodigy houses
- manor houses
- country houses
- guildhalls
- town halls
- Residential homes
- farmhouses
- churches
- Hatfield House Hertfordshire
- Longleat House Wiltshire
- Hardwick Hall Derbyshire
- Royal Exchange London,
- Knole House Kent,
- Montacute House Somerset
- Burghley House Lincolnshire
- Globe Theatre London
- Coaching inns / posting inns
- Urban inns
- Alehouses and taverns (with lodging)
- Private hospitality (manor houses and gentry homes)
- College and university lodging
- Religious/charitable lodging (reduced compared with medieval)
- Merchant lodging and livery-company networks (London)
- George Inn Southwark London
- The Olde Bell (Hurley, Berkshire)
- The Swan Hotel (Lavenham, Suffolk)
- The Bear Inn (Oxford)
- The Mermaid Inn (Rye, East Sussex)
- Hardwick Hall (Derbyshire)
- Burghley House (Lincolnshire)
Demolished or destroyed –
- The Tabard Inn (Southwark)
- The White Hart (Southwark),
- The Boar’s Head Inn (Eastcheap, London)
- “Galleried” courtyard coaching inns – Coventry, Birmingham, Bristol, York, Norwich
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation
Warbrook House (near Eversley, Hampshire
Lumley Castle Hotel (County Durham)
Bailbrook House Hotel (Bath, England)