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Montacute House, Somerset

Montacute House Montacute House is a late Elizabethan three-storey mansion with garden in Montacute, Somerset. It was built for Sir Edward Phelips around 1598 and owned by his descendants until the early 20th century, when it was acquired by the National Trust. The house was built just as architecture was moving from the mediæval Gothic to the Renaissance Classical, and montacute is one of few fine houses to survive almost unchanged from the Elizabethan era. The Long Gallery, the longest in Britain, serves as an outpost of the National Portrait Gallery, displaying a skilful and well-studied range of old oils and water-colours. (Read more)