Chateau layout

Drachenburg Castle Floor Plan

Chateau V Floor Plan

Kensington House: built in 1873-75 (on the site of a former insane asylum) for financier Albert Grant at a cost of £300,000 (equivalent to $34 million today); Grant went bankrupt before the house was finished and never lived there. The house was demolished in 1882.

Ham House is a 17th-century house set in formal gardens on the bank of the River Thames in Ham, south of Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It was completed by 1610 by Thomas Vavasour, an Elizabethan courtier and Knight Marshal to James I, but came to prominence during the 1670s as the home of Elizabeth Maitland, the Countess of Dysart and her second husband John Maitland, the Duke of Lauderdale. In 1948, the house was donated to the National Trust by Sir Lyonel…

Biltmore Mansion Floor Plan

An example of English architecture during a period that was moving from the medieval Gothic to the Renaissance Classical, and one of few prodigy house survive almost unchanged from the Elizabethan era. Designed by an unknown architect, possibly the mason William Arnold, the three-storey mansion was built in about 1598 by Sir Edward Phelips, Master of the Rolls and the prosecutor during the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters.

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