Small gothic mansion

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In the tapestry of architectural styles draping our countryside, few threads are as romantic as those woven within the Gothic tradition. Each thread is a story, and every weave is a legend. Beyond the mists of time, the whispering winds of the past, to which we must venture, stands that Gothic farmhouse: an enigmatic beauty…

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.