Top 25 listed buildings in Britain

3. Montacute House, Somerset

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montacute_House

This imperious late Elizabethan country house straddles the Gothic and the Renaissance Classical style and was built for Sir Edward Phelps, the prosecutor on Guy Fawkes's Gunpowder Trial.

4. Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol-College-Oxford-designcurial

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Oxford#mediaviewer/File:Balliol_College_Oxford_Old_Library_(5647001647).jpg

Founded in 1263 by John I de Balliol, the oldest surviving part of this Grade I listed college is the front quadrangle which dates back to 1431. The striped chapel pictured was built by William Butterfield in 1857.

 

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