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

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.
