Felbrigg Hall is an elegant country house, surrounded by a 712 ha (1,760 acres) estate, has been for 500 years the home of the Wyndham family, until the last private and ... read more
Sheringham Hall and gardens constructed in the 1800s for the Upcher family, was a joint project of the famous landscape designer Humphry Repton and his architect son ... read more
Oxburgh Hall was built around 1482 by Sir Edmund Bedingfield. Since then, the house has been continuously inhabited by the Catholic family Bedingfield. Today the ... read more
Hoveton Hall, not open to the public, was built between 1809 and 1812, and designed by Humphry Repton, the famous architect and landscape designer. It is owned by ... read more
Greys Court is a Tudor-Style House with a courtyard, 14th century Tower and tranquil gardens. The house was given as a dowry to the wife of Sir William Stapleton, 4th ... read more
Buscot Park, built between 1780 and 1783, is the family home of Lord Faringdon, who looks after the property on behalf of the National Trust, as well as the family ... read more
Sulgrave Manor was built in 1539 by Lawerence Washington, ancestor to George Washington. Some additions were made in the 18th century. Since 1921 it is in the care of the ... read more
Chastleton House was built between 1607 and 1612, and stayed in the same family (Jones and Whitmore-Jones) until 1991, when it was acquired by the National Trust ... read more
Rousham House has been in the hands of the Dormer-Cottrell family since it was built in 1635 by Sir Robert Dormer. The house, remodelled in the 18th century by William ... read more
Moseley Old Hall is an Elizabethan house where Charles II was hiding from Cromwell's troops, during his escape to France, after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The ... read more
Biddulph Grange Garden is a Victorian 6.1 ha (15 acres) garden, designed by its owner James Bateman, horticulturist and landowner, with the help of the artist Edward ... read more
Trentham Estate has been the Staffordshire seat of the Dukes of Sutherland. The house, today in ruin, dates from 1833–42, and was designed by Charles Barry, the ... read more
Anglesey Abbey is set on the grounds of a former priory, dating back to the 11th century. The mansion goes back to 1538. In 1926 it was bought by the wealthy 1st Lord ... read more
Chippenham Park is a privately owned estate, created the very end of the 17th century by Admiral Lord Russell with permission from William III. It is surrounded by 121 ha ... read more
Wimpole Hall dates back to the 11th century but the present house was completed in 1650. Wimpole has known many aristocratic owners. Its last private owners, Captain ... read more
Arlington Court estate, covering today 1,417 ha (3.500 acres), has been in the hands of the Chichester family for over five hundred years, before it was donated to the ... read more
Coleton Fishacre was built in the 1920s as a country retreat for Sir Rupert and Lady D'Oyly Carte. The house, with its Art Deco elegance and Jazz Age atmosphere, is ... read more
Greenway, a 18th century house, has been the holiday home of the world famous author, Dame Agatha Christie. She and her husband, the archeologist Max Mallowan, bought ... read more
Knightshayes Court is a 19th century house in Gothic Revival style, and built for Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Baronet. His family has got wealthy by the lace-making ... read more
Dartington became well known from 1925 and onwards, when an exceptionally well-off couple, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, bought the estate and began to explore how a ... read more