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- Althorp House - The slick official web site of the Spencer family ancestral home where Diana, Princess of Wales was buried. Attractively-presented illustrated history of the house.
www.althorp-house.co.uk
- Astley Hall - A distinguished Elizabethan house in Chorley, preserved as a museum and art gallery, with two rooms licensed for weddings. Photographs and visitor information, including for schools.
www.astleyhall.co.uk
- Ballencrieff Castle, Scotland - This beautiful house built by John Murray in 1586 has been carefully restored and now offers accommodation, weddings and private dinners. Brief history, photographs.
www.scotland-info.co.uk/ballencrieff.htm
- Baltersan, Ayrshire, Scotland - James Brown, FSA (Scot) provides a thoughtful history and description of this ruined 16th-century tower-house, with photos, drawings, floor-plans, family connections.
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Baltersan/index.htm
- Beaulieu Palace House - 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.
www.beaulieu.co.uk
- Belchamp Hall - The official site of this Queen Anne period family home in Suffolk has photographs, some history, and description of facilities offered.
www.belchamphall.com
- Blenheim Palace - 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.
www.blenheimpalace.com
- Boughton House - 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.
www.boughtonhouse.org.uk
- British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses - An interactive map leads to short descriptions by Risto Hurmalainen of historic buildings he has visited, a gallery of expandable thumbnail photographs and links to official sites. Hosted by Castles of the World.
www.castles-uk.com
- Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire - 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.
www.burtonconstable.com
- Chartwell House, Westerham, Kent - Sir Winston Churchills family house, managed by the National Trust. Photograph and description of the collection of Churchill memorabilia.
www.bigginhill.co.uk/chartwell.htm
- Chatsworth House - The magnificent home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, remodelled 1686-1707. Includes a history and highlights of the house, along with visitor information.
www.chatsworth-house.co.uk
- Coleton Fishacre, South Devon - Article by Jane Johnson in Britannia on this Art Deco mansion built in 1926 to the designs of Oswald Milne (1881-1967), assistant to Lutyens. Photographs, history and visitor information.
www.britannia.com/history/chouses/fishacre.html
- Devizes Castle, Wiltshire - The present owners present photographs of the 19th-century castellated mansion designed by Henry Edmund Goodridge, and a history of the site, which retains fragments of a medieval castle.
www.geocities.com/TheTropics/3670/index.html
- Duff House - This grand mansion in Scotland was commissioned in 1735 by William Duff, Lord Braco, from William Adam and is now a country house gallery. Provides a history with images including Adam's plan.
www.duffhouse.org.uk
- Duncombe Park - Baroque mansion set in several hundred acres of parkland. Information for visitors and teachers.
www.duncombepark.com
- Dunrobin Castle - Photographs, description and visitor information from Highland Escape. This Scottish stately home is largely a Victorian confection by Charles Barry, with interiors redesigned by Sir Robert Lorimer after 1915.
www.highlandescape.com/dunrobin
- English Country Houses - Britannia's collection of illustrated articles: regional studies and the histories of specific houses.
www.britannia.com/history/c-house.html
- English Country Houses and Stately Homes A-Z - A gazetteer from Britain Express: highlights, opening times, location maps and thumbnail images.
www.britainexpress.com/Where_to_go_in_Britain/historic_houses/historic_houses_index.htm
- Great Houses of Scotland - Six of Scotland's finest historic homes: Traquair House, Scone Palace, Glamis Castle, Blair Castle, Ballindalloch Castle and Dunrobin Castle. Official web site providing visitor information.
www.great-houses-scotland.co.uk
- Grimsthorpe Castle and Gardens - 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.
www.grimsthorpe.co.uk
- Hammerwood Park - The Greek Revival house near East Grinstead was built in 1792 to the designs of Benjamin Latrobe. This cluttered site includes a scholarly history by Michael Trinder and a virtual guided tour.
www.mistral.co.uk/hammerwood/index.html
- Harewood House, Yorkshire - A stately home with museum and art gallery set in magnificent grounds, with a large exotic bird collection.
www.harewood.org/index.htm
- Harlaxton Manor - The most attractive and interesting work of the Victorian architect Anthony Salvin. Designed in the Elizabethan and Jacobean style. This site from the current owners, Harlaxton College, gives a good history of the building.
www.ueharlax.ac.uk/harlaxton/briefj.htm
- Hatch Court - A Palladian mansion in Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset, built of Bath stone in 1750. Photographs, description, history and visitor information.
www.weavo.co.uk/hatch/hatchcourt.htm
- Hawkstone Park - Follies and Gardens - The official site for this 18th-century garden with grottos and architectural oddities created in Shropshire by Sir Rowland Hill. Photographs, brief history and visitor information.
www.hawkstone.co.uk/follies.htm
- Heritage Online - Provides illustrated descriptions of a few historic houses of the UK: Bowhill House and Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland; Coughton Court, Cottisbrook Hall in England.
www.heritageontheweb.co.uk
- Highcliffe Castle, Christchurch, Dorset - The official web site of this early Victorian romantic fantasy castle, incorporating medieval stone-carving and stained glass from France. Photographs and brief history.
www.christchurch.gov.uk/highcliffecastle
- Historic Houses and Gardens in Cumbria - A guide to the historic houses and gardens in Cumbria. Photographs, brief history and links to official sites.
www.visitcumbria.com/gardens.htm
- Historic Houses in SW England - List of the historic buildings, houses, homes and gardens in the south west of England.
www.southwest.uk.com/houses_and_gardens
- Hudson's Historic Houses and Gardens - 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.
www.hudsons.co.uk
- Kelmscott Manor - The Tudor manor house which was the home of William Morris, founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, and houses collections of his works. Photograph, brief history and visitor information.
www.kelmscottmanor.co.uk
- Kingston Bagpuize House - A manor house, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, built about 1660 and extensively remodelled in the early 1700s. Brief illustrated history and visitor information.
www.kingstonbagpuizehouse.org.uk
- Knebworth House - Illustrated history of the home of the Lytton family from Camelot International. The house dates from the Tudor period, but was re-modelled in Victorian times.
www.camelot-intl.com/heritage/historichouses/south%5Feast/knebworth
- Leighton Hall, Lancashire - The stately home of the Gillow furniture making family, Leighton Hall was rebuilt in the Adam style in 1763. The official site gives an illustrated history and visitor information.
www.leightonhall.co.uk
- Longleat House and Safari Park - Widely regarded as the best example of high Elizabethan architecture in Britain. Attractions include several mazes and a Dr Who exhibition.
www.longleat.co.uk
- Lulworth Castle - 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.
www.lulworth.com
- Nailsea Court - Nailsea Court Residents Association presents a history of this Jacobean manor house (now converted into five homes). Includes exterior and interior images.
www.nailseacourt.com
- Paxton House, Scotland - Palladian mansion built in 1758 by John and James Adam. A few photographs, map and visitor information, educational options, events, exhibitions, details of the collections and family history.
www.paxtonhouse.com
- Renishaw Hall Derbyshire - The stately home of the Sitwell family, built mainly in the Georgian period around a 17th-century core. Brief history and engraving, visitor information.
www.sitwell.co.uk
- Revesby Abbey - Pauk Bradley details the history and restoration of an important Victorian country house in Lincolnshire, designed by Scottish architect William Burn.
homepage.ntlworld.com/p.bradley6/Revesby_Abbey
- Rossdhu House - Electronic version of an illustrated guidebook to the stately Georgian former home of the Chiefs of the Clan Colquhoun near Luss in Scotland, now a golf club house. Hosted by Edward MacKinnon.
www.turningwood.fsnet.co.uk/rossdhuhouse.html
- Scotland's Castles and Historic Houses - 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.
www.aboutscotland.co.uk/castles/castles.html
- Scottish Castles and Historic Houses - Photographs, brief histories and information for visitors, provided by On-Line Scotland.
www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~ecs/culture/cult02.htm
- Suffolk Historic Houses Invitation to View - The scheme sees the owners of some of Suffolks private houses and gardens, to which there is usually little or no public access, opening their doors. Photographs and brief histories.
www.suffolkhistorichouses.org.uk
- Sutton Park - The official site of an early Georgian house in Yorkshire gives a history, photographic tour and visitor information.
www.statelyhome.co.uk
- The DiCamillo Companion to British and Irish Country Houses - A database that aims to list every British and Irish country house from circa 1500 to 1945, standing or demolished. Also an online shop.
www.dicamillocompanion.com
- The Grange - The Landmark Trust provides a large photograph and brief history of this crafted, Gothic Revival house designed and built by Augustus W.N. Pugin for himself (1843-4).
www.landmarktrust.co.uk/grange.html
- The Prebendal Manor, Nassington - This 13th-century house is a rare survival. Photographs, scholarly history, archaeological finds, description of the recreated medieval garden, visitor information, events.
www.prebendal-manor.demon.co.uk
- Tissington Hall - The official website of the Derbyshire home of the FitzHerbert Family. Contains photographs and information about the hall, the village of Tissington and the annual custom of well-dressing.
www.tissington-hall.co.uk
- Titsey Place, Oxted, Surrey - The official site gives a history, guided tour and visitor information for this Georgian mansion set in extensive gardens.
www.titsey.com
- Tredegar House - The finest surviving Restoration house in Wales, home of the Morgan family for over 500 years. The official site gives an illustrated history, interior views and family portraits. Pop-up banners.
members.fortunecity.com/tredegarhouse
- Wimpole - The National Trust introduces largest country house in Cambridgeshire, built mainly in the 18th century. Includes a brief history and images of the exterior and interior, and visitor information.
www.wimpole.org
- Woburn Abbey - The official site offers an illustrated history and tour of the Georgian stately home built on a monastic site. Visitor information, activities programme.
www.woburnabbey.co.uk
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