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Montacute House

📍 Somerset, England

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Montacute House is a late Elizabethan mansion in Montacute, South Somerset, England. An example of English architecture created during a period that was moving from the medieval Gothic to the more classically-inspired Renaissance style, Montacute is one of the few prodigy houses to have survived almost unchanged from the Elizabethan era. The house has been designated as a Grade I listed building, and its gardens are also listed at the highest grade on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.

Built in the 1590s for Sir Edward Phelips, the lawyer who led the prosecution of Guy Fawkes. One of the finest Elizabethan houses in England, built in warm golden Ham Hill stone. The Long Gallery, at 52 metres, is the longest surviving Elizabethan gallery and houses Tudor and Jacobean portraits from the National Portrait Gallery. Featured as a filming location in the 2011 film The Other Boleyn Girl and Sense & Sensibility (1995). National Trust since 1931.