Museum · England · Restored
Hardwick Hall
Hardwick Hall is an Elizabethan country house in Derbyshire, England, designed by Robert Smythson and built for Bess of Hardwick between 1590 and 1597. It is a prodigy house noted for its extensive glazing and large, ordered state rooms, and it is set within a large estate with gardens and the nearby Old Hall ruins.
First raised
1590
Its prime
1597
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1597
The shape it held in its prime.
A three-storey, rectangular ashlar stone mansion of warm honey-colour sandstone, the façade arranged in regular bays of very tall mullioned and transomed windows set above a ground-floor colonnaded loggia; the ends project as taller square towers. A low balustraded parapet and decorative cresting run along the roofline between clustered chimneys, and a broad clipped lawn and planted borders lead up to the house.
Step inside
10 places to explore in 1597.
The record describes 10 distinct spots at Hardwick Hall — including 6 interiors: ground-floor colonnade (loggia), main entrance and axial hall, wide winding stone staircase and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
Create History
Recreate Hardwick Hall with AI to explore it.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1597 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
Recreate Museum to Explore →Whose seat
Families who held Hardwick Hall.
The families tied to Hardwick Hall across its history — follow a name to its page.
Passed from Bess of Hardwick to her son William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, in 1608, and held by the Cavendish Earls and Dukes of Devonshire until transfer to the Treasury in 1956.
Nearby
