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Berrington Hall was designed by Henry Holland and built in the late 18th century. It stands in grounds lanscaped by Capability Brown. It is constructed of large sandstone blocks which give it a rather ... |
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Tatton Park is a large estate and includes many attractions, entrance to some of which are not covered by National Trust membership due to the finance, maintenance and administration of the park by Cheshire ... |
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Coughton Court is a wonderful Tudor house and has been the home of the Throckmorton family since 1409. It has important links with the Gunpowder plot and Civil War. The architecture of Coughton Court ... |
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Dinmore Manor is no longer open to the public. Dinmore Manor is located in beautiful Herefordshire countryside at an elevation of around 500ft above sea level, which affords spectacular views extending ... |
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Little Moreton Hall is one of the finest examples of a timber framed moated manor house in Britain. Parts of the building date back 600 years, yet most of the oak frame is original, although its shape ... |
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Baddesley Clinton is a moated manor house of great character dating from the 15th Century. The house is mainly stone built with red brickwork on the South Range. A gap in the north side reveals the half-timbered ... |
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Athelhampton is one of the finest 15th Century houses in England, containing many magnificently furnished rooms including The Great Hall of 1485 and the newly opened Library. The glorious Grade I gardens, ... |
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Wightwick Manor is a Victorian house constructed to give the appearance of a home that has evolved over several hundred years. The house is decorated and furnished in the Arts and Crafts style, and is ... |
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Moseley Old Hall is an Elizabethan house, which becomes more evident when you see the wealth of exposed timbers inside the building. The outside of Moseley Old Hall received a 'facelift' in the 19th Century, ... |
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Attingham Park is a fine mansion, built in 1785, and located in beautiful grounds landscaped by Repton. Attingham was designed by George Steuart for the 1st Lord Berwick and has superb regency interiors ... |
| Harewood House was designed by John Carr and completed in 1772. It sits in 1,000 acres of grounds landscaped by Capability Brown and has an interior by Robert Adam. Harewood has many fine paintings ... |
| Somerleyton Hall stands on the site of an earlier Jacobean manor house, but the house we see today is unmistakably early Victorian. The transformation of Somerleyton to this extravagant mansion was carried ... |
| Castle Howard was created by Sir John Vanbrugh for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. This was Vanbrugh's first architectural commision, and a quite remarkable achievment. Vanbrugh was a fascinating character; ... |
| Knole is one of Englands great houses largely unaltered since 1603, and standing in a deer park. A house has stood at Knole since 1291, but what we see today is largely thanks to Thomas Sackville, who ... |
| Alfriston Clergy House is a thatched and timber framed hall house, in the Wealden vernacular style, built in around 1350 for a small group of parish priests. The house is set on the edge of the village ... |
| Bateman's is a Jacobean style house built in 1634 by a local builder. It features mullioned windows, gables with finials, a three storey porch and the fashionable decorative chimneys of the time. From ... |
| Lamb House is a Georgian house dating from 1723 when completed by James Lamb. The Lamb family were a force to be reckoned with in Rye for 150 years; James Lamb was elected Mayor 13 times and his son, ... |
| Uppark is a late 17th century house designed by William Talman for Lord Grey of Werke. Talman was of Dutch origin, and the style of the building reflects this with its hip roof, exaggerated cornice, and ... |
| Standen was built in 1894 for James Beale and designed byPhilip Webb, a close friend of William Morris. This family house is a peculiar building, neither a cottage or grand house, and externally finished ... |
| The Vyne dates from the early 16th century when it was built by William Sandys, a gentleman who served Henry VIII for over 30 years, later being rewarded as Lord Sandys of The Vyne and becoming Lord Chamberlain. In ... |