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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, ... |
| The historic family home of the Earl of Devon, mediaeval castle in an ancient deer park beside the River Exe. Guided tours , gardens, grounds, gift shop, restaurant and Farm Shop and Plant Centre |
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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, ... |
| The Ipswich Transport Museum has the largest collection of transport items in Britain devoted to just one town. Everything was either made or used in and around Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk. |
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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 ... |
| The Countrys top visitor attraction 1998. A visit to our unique and educational museum will transport you back to wartime Britain. |
| The Mary Rose, built in around 1511, was Henry VIII's favourite warship. She was one of the first ships to be built with gun ports that enabled broadside attacks, and is the only preserved 16th century ... |
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Canterbury Cathedral dates back to the arrival of the first Archbishop, Augustine, from Rome in AD 597. The earliest part of the present building is the great Romanesque crypt built circa 1100. This ... |
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Windsor Castle was built high above the banks of the River Thames some 900 years ago to protect the western approaches to London. During that time the Castle has developed into the palatial residence ... |
| 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 ... |
| The Commandery is an historic building dating mainly from the medieval period. Used as Royalist Headquarters by Charles II at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 it today houses a museum dedicated to the ... |
| Eastnor Castle is a wonderful Victorian creation in the Gothic style by Sir Robert Smirke built betwen 1810 - 1816, for the 1st Earl of Somers. The Castle is in a delightful location overlooking a ... |
| The focus of the special exhibition at the Museum of Costume for 1999 and 2000, will be the women who wore the clothes featured in the display rather than simply the garments. Curators have carefully ... |
| 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 ... |
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Bodiam Castle rises from its own reflection in a lake-sized moat, where only swans, water lillys or the wind, break the surface. Bodiam is a fairytale castle in a superb location. The Castle was built ... |
| 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 ... |