The Estates · Tudor & Elizabethan
The Parkland Seat
A house set at the far end of a great lawn, with battlements that were never meant for battle.
The approach
The country seat was designed to be discovered slowly. A long drive crosses open parkland, and the house appears across a sweep of grass, framed by old trees planted generations before.
Battlements as ornament
By the Tudor period, crenellated parapets were decoration rather than defense: a nod to the castles that came before, and a reminder of the family's long standing.
The landscape is the house
In these estates the grounds matter as much as the rooms. Lawns, avenues and distant views were composed like paintings, and many survive almost unchanged.
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