aerial photograph of Highclere Castle and surrounding parkland . Famous for its role in the television program Dowton Abbey the house was remodeled from an earlier structure in 1839 to 1842 by Charles Barry, the architect who also designed the Houses of Parliament. He revived elements of earlier Jacobean and Elizabethan architecture producing the so called " Jacobethan" style. The park were designed by Capability Brown and laid out between 1774 and 1777.