The United Kingdom is famous for its Castles and Stately Homes. Unlike much of the rest of Europe many of these properties are still owned and occupied by descendants of the person responsible for building them, in many cases several hundred years ago. Of the rest some are now in the care of English Heritage or the National Trust and some are Public Schools, Museums or even Hotels and sadly some no longer exist at all. Not all the properties displayed here are open to the public, we have provided links to the websites of those that are from the detail pages.
We are excluding from this section "true" castles, details of which you can find in our Castles and Forts section, being interested in properties primarily being constructed for use as a major residence. You will find more a more complete list of this type of property, without the watercolour pictures, in our attractions section of Stately Homes and Historic Houses.
We display here many of the Stately Homes of Great Britain in alphabetical grouping by name, please select the first character of the Stately Home that you require and you will be presented with a thumbnail picture and name of those that begin with the character you selected. From the detail page you will be able to exit to their website, if they have one, or to our pages that give additional information and maps of the particular location.
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The numbers below each character indicate the number of entries in our database that will be returned if you selection that character.
Stately Homes are perhaps more correctly and originally referred to as "Country Seats" (The
other seat
was usually in the House of Lords), or today "Country Estates" as at the time of their
construction it was common for the nobility and landed gentry to have houses in the city, commonly London, and also
these properties out in the country where they and their families could escape
into healthier surroundings during the height of summer.
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Blenheim Palace |
Castle Howard |
Harewood House |
Ripley Castle |
Warwick Castle |