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
Aston Hall is a magnificent seventeenth century red-brick Jacobean mansion situated in a picturesque public park on the north side of Birmingham. Built between 1618 and ... read more
Avebury Manor is a country house with many different elements and styles, from monastic to the 20th century. Now in the hands of the National Trust, the house and garden ... read more
Ayscoughfee Hall was built in the 15th century for a local patrician and changed hands several times, before it was bought on behalf of the people of Spalding and became a ... read more
Babbacombe Model Village, covering 1.6 ha (4 acres) is a model village, representing English country life, but has also developed urban features. It was opened in 1963 ... read more
The Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture Garden is the place where Barbara Hepworth lived and worked, surrounded by a garden, laid out by herself with help from a ... read more
Belgrave Hall dates from early 18th century and was commissioned by Edmund Cradock a hosiery merchant. He died soon after its completion, and the house changed hands ... read more
Beningbrough Hall is a remarkable baroque house, completed in 1716, on the older Beningbrough estate. Since 1556 the estate has been in the hands of several families, ... read more
Bowes Museum was built as a public art gallery for John Bowes and his wife, Joséphine, Countess of Montalbo. He was the illegitimate son of the 10th Earl of Starthmore. ... read more
Brantwood was the home of John Ruskin (1819-1900), the leading art critic, art patron, water-colourist and philanthropist. He lived here from 1872 until 1900. Today the ... read more
Broughton House is an 18th century town house, and today a museum dedicated to the life and work of the Scottish artist Edward Atkinson Hornel, who lived here from 1901 ... read more
Bruce Castle Museum, a museum of local history, is housed in the 16th century Bruce Castle, and surrounded by Bruce Castle Park, which is today a public park. It is named ... read more
Buckland Abbey dates from 1278 as a Cistercian abbey and was afterwards the home of Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, whose collateral descendants lived there ... read more
Burnby Hall and Gardens (3.64 ha, 9 acres), were bequeathed in 1962 to the people of Pocklington by Major Percy Marlborough Stewart and his wife Katharine. The ... read more
Callendar House, surrounded by a landscape park and since 1963 purchased by the Falkirk Burgh Council, is now an art, history and historic house museum. read more
Carisbrooke Castle has a long history, having been a military fortress, a Royal prison and a Royal residence. Charles I was imprisoned here and two of his children were ... read more
Chiddingstone Castle has Tudor origins, and was rebuilt in the 1800s to resemble a medieval castle. Set in 35 acres of grounds and gardens, the Castle is filled with ... read more
Claverton Manor, now housing the American Museum, was built in 1820 replacing an earlier manor house. It was designed by Sir Jeffry Wyatville, commissioned by John ... read more
Crystal Palace was the famous iron-plate-glass construction, built for the Great Exhibition in 1851, and designed by Joseph Paxton. Originally located in Hyde Park, it ... read more
Cyfarthfa Castle, built in 1824 by the architect Robert Lugar, was the home of the Crawshay family until 1907 when it was sold to the local council. The mansion is ... read more