Wollaton Hall is an Elizabethan country house of the 1580s standing on a small but prominent hill in Wollaton Park, Nottingham, England. The house is now Nottingham Natural History Museum, with Nottingham Industrial Museum in the out-buildings. The surrounding park land has a herd of deer, and is regularly used for large-scale outdoor eventssuch as rock concerts, sporting events and festivals.
Wollaton is a classic prodigy house, "the architectural sensation of its age",[1] though its builder was not a leading courtier and its construction stretched the resources he mainly obtained from coalmining; the original family home was at the bottom of the hill. Though much remodelled inside, the "startlingly bold" exterior remains largely intact