Mompesson House

Outside London were many early examples of simple, well-proportioned English houses that continued the tradition from Elizabethan days. The rules of proportion laid down in Vignola's "Rule of the Five Orders" of 1562 and John Shute's "Chiefe Groundes of Architecture" of 1563 had somehow merged with the rules for building Charles II's new London. By the turn of the seventeenth century the type was well established and accepted all through the country. This vernacular architecture with its quiet authority proved to be extremely popular and interest focused once again on the principles of Palladio and Vitruvius.