Architectural Styles
Jacobean
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1603-1625
- Symmetrical Facades
- intricate stone carvings
- decorative details
- Prominent gables
- decorative parapets
- tall, decorative chimneys
- Large Windows with Mullions
- brick, stone & timber
- England
- London
- Cambridge
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Country houses
- civic buildings
- churches
- Banqueting House Whitehall
- Hatfield House Hertfordshire
- Queen’s House Greenwich
- Burghley House Lincolnshire
- Charleston Farmhouse Sussex
- Montacute House Somerset
- Longleat Wiltshire,
- Inns (town and roadside)
- Coaching inns / posting houses
- Taverns and alehouses (with lodging)
- Private hospitality in manor houses / great houses
- University/college lodging
- Almshouses and hospitals (limited traveller shelter)
- Lodgings in private houses (urban furnished rooms)
- The George Inn (Southwark, London)
- The Olde Bell (Hurley, Berkshire)
- The Swan Hotel (Lavenham, Suffolk)
- Historic inns in Oxford / Cambridge
Adaptive Reuse
- Bovey Castle (Devon)
- Ettington Park Hotel (Warwickshire)
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation