Architectural Styles

Jacobean

Alt names / subperiods 

Timeline

Distinguishing Features

Geographic Presence

King James I

Early Stuart

Elizabethan-Jacobean

Carolean

 

Wikipedia

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