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Wollaton Hall
Wollaton Hall is an Elizabethan prodigy house built c.1580–1588 on a small hill in Wollaton Park, Nottingham. The large symmetrical stone mansion has a three-storey central hall, corner pavilions and projecting towers, and today houses the Nottingham Natural History Museum. The surrounding parkland is extensive and was historically part of the designed setting.
Its prime
1588
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1588
What Wollaton Hall looked like in its prime.
A monumental, symmetrical Elizabethan mansion of pale Ancaster stone set on a low hill, dominated by a three-storey central hall with tall mullioned windows and a balustraded parapet. Square three-storey corner pavilions project at each corner, with decorative carved strapwork, stone pilasters and small round turrets above the top floor. A wide stone stair leads to the central arched entrance; much of the basement is cut into the rock. The façades show plentiful carved ornament and window tracery.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1588.
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Families who held Wollaton Hall.
The families tied to Wollaton Hall across its history, follow a name to its page.
Willoughby
Built 1580-1588 for the coal magnate Sir Francis Willoughby; seat of the Willoughby family, later Barons Middleton, until sold to Nottingham in 1925.
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