Stately homes · East Midlands
Britain's stately homes: ten grand country seats
Chatsworth, Blenheim, Castle Howard, Holkham — the great houses still open to the public.
Britain's stately homes are the country's grandest private architecture, kept open by their owners or by the National Trust. Most are still lived in, all have working gardens, and almost all are within an hour of a city. Pick three for a long weekend; visit ten across two weeks for the full architectural sweep from Tudor Hardwick to Edwardian Polesden Lacey.
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★ Iconic📷 3Stately homes · East Midlands
Chatsworth House
Britain's most-visited stately home — seat of the Devonshires since 1549, home of the Devonshire Collection.
📷 3UNESCO World Heritage · West Midlands
Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace — country house near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK.
📷 3Gardens · Yorkshire & the Humber
Castle Howard
Castle Howard — historic house museum.
📷 3Historic houses · East of England
Holkham Hall
Holkham Hall ( or ) is an 18th-century country house near the village of Holkham, Norfolk, England, constructed in the Neo-Palladian style for Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (of the fifth creation
📷 3Historic houses · East of England
Burghley House
Burghley House () is a grand 16th-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior (Exeter) b
📷 3Galleries · East Midlands
Hardwick Hall
Hardwick Hall — Elizabethan country house in Derbyshire, England, UK.
📷 3Historic houses · East Midlands
Kedleston Hall
Kedleston Hall — a other in england-east-midlands, United Kingdom.
📷 5Historic houses · South East England
Longleat House
Longleat House — a other in england-south-east, United Kingdom.
📷 3Abbeys & priories · East of England
Woburn Abbey
Woburn Abbey (), occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford. Although it is still a family home to the current duke,
📷 3Zoos & aquariums · Yorkshire & the Humber
Harewood House
Harewood House — Grade I listed historic house museum and Zoo in Harewood, United Kingdom.