Hardwick Hall is an Elizabethan prodigy house at Doe Lea, Ault Hucknall, in Derbyshire, England, built between 1590 and 1597 to the design of the architect Robert Smythson for Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury. Its exceptionally large expanses of glazing, unusual for the period, gave rise to the description that the house has more glass than wall, and its centered great hall and floors of increasing ceiling height mark it as an early English essay in Renaissance planning. A Grade I listed building, it has belonged to the National Trust since 1959.
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Designed by Robert Smythson in the late 16th century, Hardwick Hall is on a hilltop between Chesterfield and Mansfield overlooking the Derbyshire countryside.
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