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[40584] Hardwick Old Hall : Bedroom
Hardwick Old Hall, Derbyshire, early C16 & 1587-90.
For Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury - Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608).
Grade l listed.
The house had two full scale great chambers and there are substantial remains of decorative plasterwork by Abraham Smith.
Mr Reason's & Mr Digby's Chambers.
Two of Bess's gentlemen servants.
A fireplace & overmantle in their bedroom on an upper floor.
Hardwick was home to Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), one of the most formidable women of Elizabethan England. She was the matriarch of the Cavendish family, building Chatsworth with her second husband and returning to build the two great halls at Hardwick after her separation from her fourth husband the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
[40584] Hardwick Old Hall : Bedroom
Hardwick Old Hall, Derbyshire, early C16 & 1587-90.
For Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury - Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608).
Grade l listed.
The house had two full scale great chambers and there are substantial remains of decorative plasterwork by Abraham Smith.
Mr Reason's & Mr Digby's Chambers.
Two of Bess's gentlemen servants.
A fireplace & overmantle in their bedroom on an upper floor.
Hardwick was home to Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), one of the most formidable women of Elizabethan England. She was the matriarch of the Cavendish family, building Chatsworth with her second husband and returning to build the two great halls at Hardwick after her separation from her fourth husband the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.