Elizabethan

Fawsley Hall was the home of the Knightley Family from the turn of the C15. Where they developed the land for sheep farming. At the end of the C15 the peasants were evicted to make more land available for sheep.
 
The present hall dates from early C16 and was extended throughout the C16, a Georgian classical style wing was added in C18 and the Estate landscaped by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in the 1760s and 1770s.
 

Lyveden New Bield, one of the oldest garden layouts in England, this Elizabethan mansion was never completed.
 
Intended as an occasional, or secret house, which visitors to the main residence could be transported to for banquets overlooking the estate, or to which the family could retire when the main house was being cleaned and fumigated.

This house was built by the Thomas Tresham who was a staunch Roman Catholic during Elizabeth I reign, and as such was fined heavily as recusants. This resulted in debts of £11,000 on his death. His eldest son Francis Tresham then became part of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.

This Triangular Lodge was built for Thomas Tresham in 1595 from of limestone and ironstone this folly just outside of Rushton makes a play on the number 3. Tresham a Roman Catholic and in addition to paying almost £8,000 in fines, was imprisoned for a total of fifteen years in the late 16th century for refusing to become a Protestant. On his release in 1593, he designed the Lodge as a protestation of his faith. His belief in the Holy Trinity is represented everywhere in the Lodge by the number three.
 
Thomas Tresham died in 1605 and his son, Francis, having become involved in the Gunpowder Plot, died imprisoned as a traitor in the Tower of London a few months later.