[4] This is one of the finest Elizabethan mansions in the country and was designed for Sir Edward Phelips.
Other works include the remodelling of a hunting lodge at Cranborne to form a manor house for Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury in 1607–1610.
regarded as the last major public building in the UK to have been built according to the mediaeval principles of a supervising master mason.
[citation needed] His last known work was remodelling Dunster Castle in 1617 for the owner George Luttrell.
The interiors were completely modernised in the 1680s, and the exterior work only partially survives as Anthony Salvin remodelled and extended the castle in 1868.