Holdenby House

E594906

Holdenby House is a historic English country house in Northamptonshire, best known as an Elizabethan mansion once associated with prominent courtier Sir Christopher Hatton and later used as a royal residence.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Holdenby House canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf country house
architectForRebuilding Sir George Gilbert Scott
architecturalStyle Elizabethan
Renaissance
associatedWith King Charles I
Queen Elizabeth I
Sir Christopher Hatton
linked to: Christopher Hatton
builtFor Sir Christopher Hatton
linked to: Christopher Hatton
country England
currentUse events venue
private residence
visitor attraction
wedding venue
event Charles I held under house arrest in 1647
gardenDesignation Grade I listed park and garden
hasAttraction Civil War interpretation
Falconry centre
historic gardens
hasFeature courtyard
formal gardens
gatehouse
long gallery
parkland
terraced gardens
heritageDesignation Grade II* listed building
historicalUse royal residence
laterOwner Crown Estate
Gavin family
Lowther family
listedBy Historic England
locatedIn Northamptonshire
locatedNear Northampton
material local sandstone
notablePeriod one of the largest houses in England in the late 16th century
numberOfStoreysOriginal three
openToPublic yes
orientation overlooking Nene valley
originalConstructionEnd 1578
originalConstructionStart 1571
partiallyDemolished 17th century
periodOfSignificance Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance

English Civil War
publicAccessType limited opening times
reconstructed 19th century
region East Midlands
usedAs place of confinement of Charles I

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.