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Those mansions originally built for the aristocracy and gentry and set now or originally in the countryside. This includes post-medieval castellated mansions.

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• Neo-Classical

Resources in This Category

• Acton Court

  http://www.actoncourt.com/
  A Tudor courtier house built by Nicholas Poyntz at Iron Acton, near Bristol. Illustrated history and description of the house and grounds today, plus visitor information including calendar of events and location map.

• Anglesey Abbey

  http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/anglesey-abbey/
  The National Trust describes this Augustinian priory in Cambridgeshire converted into a country house at the start of the 17th century. Includes history, photographs and visitor information.

• Beaulieu Palace House

  http://www.beaulieu.co.uk/
  Formerly the Great Gatehouse of Beaulieu Abbey, Palace House has been home to the Montagu family since 1538. The official site offers photographs and visitor information.

• Belchamp Hall

  http://www.belchamphall.com/
  The official site of this Queen Anne period family home in Suffolk has photographs, some history, and description of facilities offered.

• Blenheim Palace

  http://www.blenheimpalace.com/
  This baroque masterpiece - a World Heritage site - was built (1705-22) for the 1st Duke of Marlborough to designs by John Vanbrugh. The official site supplies an illustrated history and visitor information.

• Boughton House

  http://www.boughtonhouse.org.uk/
  The palatial Northamptonshire home of the Dukes of Buccleuch and Queensberry. Includes history and tour of this Baroque house influenced by French architecture. Visitor information.

• Burton Constable Hall

  http://www.burtonconstable.com/
  This Elizabethan house has been the home of the Constable family since it was first built. Photographs of superb later interiors, visitor information, teachers' resource packs.

• Burton Court

  http://www.burtoncourt.com/
  This 14th-century manor house in Herefordshire was re-fronted by 20th-century architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. Includes history and information on the holiday flat, exhibition and soft fruit farm.

• Castle Howard

  http://www.castlehoward.co.uk/
  One of England's grandest Baroque mansions, designed for Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, by John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. History, images, news and visitor information.

• Chartwell House

  http://www.bigginhill.co.uk/chartwell.htm
  Sir Winston Churchill's family house, managed by the National Trust. Photograph and description of the collection of Churchill memorabilia.

• Chatsworth House

  http://www.chatsworth.org/
  The magnificent home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, remodelled to designs by Talman 1686-1707. Includes a history and highlights of the house, along with visitor information.

• Coleton Fishacre

  http://www.britannia.com/history/chouses/fishacre.html
  Article by Jane Johnson in Britannia on this Art Deco mansion in South Devon built in 1926 to the designs of Oswald Milne (1881-1967), assistant to Lutyens. Photographs, history and visitor information.

• Columbine Hall

  http://www.columbinehall.co.uk/
  A moated manor house in Suffolk. Built around 1390 it has been through several phases of additions and alterations. History, images, and visitor/lodging information.

• Coughton Court

  http://www.coughtoncourt.co.uk/
  The National Trust describes the largely Elizabethan family home of the Throckmortons, built around a Tudor gatehouse. Includes history, images and visitor information.

• Duncombe Park

  http://www.duncombepark.com/
  Baroque mansion set in several hundred acres of parkland. Information for visitors and teachers.

• English Country Houses

  http://www.britannia.com/history/c-house.html
  Britannia's collection of illustrated articles: regional studies and the histories of specific houses.

• Grimsthorpe Castle and Gardens

  http://www.grimsthorpe.co.uk/
  The official site for this stately home in Lincolnshire, remodelled in 1715 to the design of Sir John Vanbrugh. Includes a few images and very brief history, amid the visitor information.

• Haddon Hall

  http://www.haddonhall.co.uk/
  The home of the Manners family in Derbyshire is one of the finest medieval and Tudor houses in England. Includes an online tour and family history.

• Hammerwood Park

  http://www.hammerwood.mistral.co.uk/
  The Greek Revival house near East Grinstead was built in 1792 to the designs of Benjamin Latrobe. Scholarly history by Michael Trinder and a virtual guided tour.

• Hatfield House

  http://www.hatfield-house.co.uk/
  The official site for this magnificent Jacobean house built by Robert Cecil 1st Earl of Salisbury and still home to his descendants includes a brief history, visitor information and interactive aerial view.

• Highcliffe Castle

  http://www.highcliffecastle.co.uk/
  The official web site of this early Victorian romantic fantasy castle in Dorset, incorporating medieval stone-carving and stained glass from France, includes history and photographs.

• Hudson's Historic Houses and Gardens

  http://www.hudsons.co.uk/
  The publishers of the guide to heritage properties in Great Britain and Ireland maintain this directory of links to web-sites of historic houses and gardens.

• Layer Marney Tower

  http://www.layermarneytower.co.uk/
  This Italianate masterpiece built c.1515 is the tallest Tudor gatehouse in England and was originally intended to rival Hampton Court. Includes a history and photographs.

• Longleat House and Safari Park

  http://www.longleat.co.uk/
  The house is widely regarded as the best example of high Elizabethan architecture in Britain. Visitor information includes details of the library and archives assembled by the Thynne family since the 1540s.

• Lost Heritage

  http://www.lostheritage.org.uk/
  Matthew Beckett provides a list of the many country houses which have been demolished in England since 1800, with images and history of a featured selection.

• Lulworth Castle

  http://www.lulworth.com/
  Official web-site of this early 17th-century mock-castle in Dorset, gutted by fire in 1929 but partly restored and open to the public.

• Mellerstain

  http://www.mellerstain.com/
  This great house in the Scottish Borders was begun in 1725, overseen by architect William Adam and completed 70 years later by Robert Adam. History, photographs, news and attractions.

• Owlpen Manor

  http://www.owlpen.com/
  This fine Tudor manor house in the Cotswolds is open to the public. Includes a history of the manor and description of its architecture, and visitor information.

• Renishaw Hall

  http://www.sitwell.co.uk/
  The stately home of the Sitwell family in Derbyshire, built mainly in the Georgian period around a 17th-century core. Brief history and engraving, visitor information.

• Scotland's Castles and Historic Houses

  http://www.aboutscotland.co.uk/castles/castles.html
  Articles, with photographs and plans, on Traquair, Mary Queen of Scots House, Linlithgow Palace, Hermitage Castle, Castle Urquhart, Crichton Castle, Strome Castle, Threave Castle and Caerlaverock Castle, from Scotland HolidayNet.

• St Michael's Mount

  http://www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/
  Crowning an island off the coast of Cornwall is the home of the St Aubyn family, incorporating parts of the priory that once stood there. Includes history and room tour.

• Sutton Park

  http://www.statelyhome.co.uk/
  The official site of an early Georgian house in Yorkshire gives a history, photographic tour and visitor information.

• The DiCamillo Companion to British and Irish Country Houses

  http://www.dicamillocompanion.com/
  A database that aims to list every British and Irish country house from circa 1500 to 1945, standing or demolished. Also an online shop.

• Titsey Place, Oxted, Surrey

  http://www.titsey.org/
  The official site gives a history, guided tour and visitor information for this Georgian mansion set in extensive gardens.

• Turncroft Hall

  http://www.turncrofthall.co.uk/
  A history of this small country house in Lancashire, two centuries old and refronted in the simplified classicism of the early Victorian period.

• Waddesdon Manor

  http://www.waddesdon.org.uk/
  This astonishing Renaissance-style château was designed by French architect Destailleur in 1874 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. Includes history, images and visitor information.

• Woburn Abbey

  http://www.woburn.co.uk/abbey/
  The official site offers an illustrated history and tour of the Georgian stately home built on a monastic site. Visitor information, activities programme.

• Woodchester Mansion

  http://www.woodchestermansion.org.uk/
  A 19th-century masterpiece of Cotswold stone deserted during construction. History, photographs, restoration, conservation training and visitor information.

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