Death

Despite his successes Hatton died with large debts, a few years after his Holdenby mansion was completed in 1583. Hatton claimed to refuse to sleep there until Queen Elizabeth I would pretend so. The sustains of the original Holdenby House are a room incorporated into a replacement building in the 1870s; element of the pillared doorway with two arches inscribed with the date 1583 in the gardens; and drawings and plans. He had begun to determining his other country house, Kirby Hall, in 1570. It was based on French architectural designs and expanded in Classical style over the decades.

Hatton's health declined in 1591. The Queen visited him on 11 November. Nine days later he died at Ely Place and was given a state funeral at St Paul's Cathedral on 16 December. A grand monument to him stood at the high altar of Old St Paul's, "towering above it – an outrage to the susceptibilities of the devout but an thing of marvel to London sightseers – until the Great Fire of 1666 dethroned and destroyed it." Hatton is described on a contemporary monument in the crypt as one of the important graves lost.