Historic houses in England - Definition and Overview

Historic houses in England is a link page for any stately home, country house or other historic house in England.

Bedfordshire

• Houghton House
• Luton Hoo
• Woburn Abbey
• Wrest Park
• Kurupshire

Berkshire

• Basildon Park - National Trust
• Frogmore House
• Windsor Castle

Buckinghamshire

• Ascott - National Trust
• Green Park, Aston Clinton
• Chenies Manor House
• Chicheley Hall
• Claydon House - National Trust
• Cliveden - National Trust
• Dorney Court
• Halton Hall
• Hughenden Manor - National Trust
• Mentmore Towers
• Stowe
• Waddesdon Manor - National Trust
• West Wycombe Park - National Trust
• Wotton House

Cambridgeshire

• Angelsey Abbey - National Trust
• Burghley House
• Elton Hall
• Wimpole Hall - National Trust

Cheshire

• Adlington Hall
• Arley Hall
• Capesthorne Hall
• Dunham Massey
• Eaton Hall
• Elton Hall, Aldford
• Gawsworth Hall, Gawsworth, owned by Richards family, but open to the public
• Little Moreton Hall
• Lyme Hall, Disley - National Trust
• Moss Hall, Audlem
• Peover Hall, Lower Peover
• Tabley House
• Tatton Hall, Tatton

Cornwall

• Antony House - National Trust
• Cotehele - National Trust
• Port Eliot
• Godolphin House
• Lanhydrock - National Trust
• Mount Edgcombe
• The Old Post Office, Tintagel - National Trust
• Pencarrow House
• Prideaux Place
• St Michael's Mount - National Trust
• Trelowarren
• Trerice - National Trust
• Trewithen House

Cumbria

• Brantwood
• Dalemain
• Dove Cottage - William Wordsworth's house 1799-1808
• Hill Top - Beatrix Potter's House - National Trust
• Holker Hall
• Hutton-in-the-Forest
• Levens Hall
• Mireshouse
• Muncaster Castle
• Naworth Castle
• Rydal Mount - William Wordsworth's house 1813-1850
• Sizergh Castle - National Trust
• Townend

Derbyshire

• Alfreton Hall
• Alsop Hall
• Bolsover Castle - English Heritage
• Bradbourne Hall
• Bradley Hall
• Bretby Hall
• Buxton Hall
• Calke Abbey - National Trust
• Chatsworth House
• Coxbench Hall
• Fenny Bentley Old Hall
• Flagg Hall
• Great Longstone Hall
• Haddon Hall
• Hardwick Hall - National Trust
• Hardwick Old Hall - English Heritage
• Hartington Hall
• Ilam Hall
• Kedleston Hall - National Trust
• Longford Hall
• Melbourne Hall
• Norbury Hall
• Parwich Hall
• Sudbury Hall - National Trust
• Sutton Scarsdale Hall - English Heritage
• Thornbridge Hall
• Wingfield Manor - English Heritage

Devon

• A la Ronde - National Trust
• Arlington Court - National Trust
• Bickleigh Castle
• Buckland Abbey - National Trust
• Cadhay
• Castle Drogo - National Trust
• Chambercombe
• Compton Castle
• Killerton- National Trust
• Knightshayes Court- National Trust
• Oldway Mansion (Paignton; local authority)
• Powderham Court
• The Prysten House, Plymouth - (local authority)
• Saltram House, Plymouth - National Trust
• Shute Barton - National Trust
• Ugbrooke

Dorset

• Athelhampton
• Clouds Hill (home of Lawrence of Arabia)
• Forde Abbey
• Kingston Lacy- (National Trust)
• Parnham House
• Sherborne Castle

Durham

• Raby Castle
• Rokeby Park

East Riding of Yorkshire

• Burton Agnes Hall
• Burton Constable Hall
• Sledmere House
• Wilberforce House

East Sussex

• Bateman's (Rudyard Kipling's House - National Trust
• Firle Place
• Glyndebourne
• Glynde Place
• Great Dixter
• Monk's House (Virginia Woolf's House)

Essex

• Audley End - English Heritage
• Layer Marney Tower
• St Osyth Priory

Gloucestershire

• Berkeley Castle
• Chavenage
• Dyrham Park - National Trust
• Owlpen Manor
• Sezincote - National Trust
• Snowshill Manor - National Trust
• Stanway House
• Sudeley Castle
• Whittington Court
• Woodchester Park Mansion

Greater London

• Clarence House - home of Princes Charles, William and Harry - open to the public in the summer only
• Chiswick House - English Heritage
• Eltham Palace - English Heritage
• Ham House - National Trust
• Hampton Court
• Kenwood House - English Heritage
• Lancaster House - owned by the government, not open to the public
• Marble Hill House - English Heritage
• Osterley Park - National Trust
• Spencer House
• Syon Park

Greater Manchester

• Ordsall Hall - owned by Salford Borough Council
• Wythenshawe Hall - owned by the City of Manchester

Hampshire

• Beaulieu Palace House
• Broadlands
• Highclere Castle
• Hinton Ampner - National Trust
• Jane Austen's House
• Mottisfort Abbey - National Trust
• Stratfield Saye (Duke of Wellington's Country House)
• The Vyne - National Trust

Herefordshire

• Berrington Hall - National Trust
• Croft Castle
• Eastnor Castle
• Kinnersley Castle

Hertfordshire

• Gorhambury
• Hatfield House
• Knebworth
• Shaw's Corner

Isle of Wight

• Appledurcombe House - English Heritage
• Osborne House - English Heritage

Kent

• Chartwell - Winston Churchill's House - National Trust
• Doddington Place
• Down House
• Godinton Park
• Hever Castle
• Ightham Moat - National Trust
• Knole - National Trust
• Leeds Castle
• Lullingstone Castle
• Penshurst Place
• Squerryes Court

Lancashire

• Astley Hall
• Browsholme Hall
• Gawthorpe Hall
• Hoghton Tower
• Leighton Hall
• Meols Hall
• Rufford Old Hall
• Samlesbury Hall - privately owned, administered by charitable trust

Leicestershire

• Belvoir Castle
• Stanford Hall

Lincolnshire

• Alford Manor House
• Ayscoughfee Hall
• Belton House - National Trust
• Doddington Hall
• Fulbeck Hall
• Gainsborough Old Hall - English Heritage
• Grimsthorpe Castle
• Gunby Hall
• Harlaxton Manor
• Normanby Hall
• Normanton Hall
• Tolethorpe Hall

Merseyside

• Speke Hall

Norfolk

• Blickling Hall - National Trust
• Felbrigg Hall - National Trust
• Holkham Hall
• Houghton Hall
• Oxburgh Hall - National Trust
• Raynham Hall
• Sandringham - privately owned by Queen Elizabeth II
• Sheringham Hall - privately owned by the Upcher family

Northamptonshire

• 78 Derngate, Northampton
• Althorp
• Boughton House
• Burghley House
• Canons Ashby House(National Trust)
• Castle Ashby
• Cottesbrooke Hall
• Deene Park
• Elton Hall
• Holdenby House
• Kelmarsh Hall
• Kirby Hall
• Lamport Hall
• Rockingham Castle
• Rushton Triangular Lodge
• Sulgrave Manor - ancestral home of George Washington

Northumberland

• Alnwick Castle
• Bamburgh Castle
• Belsay Hall - English Heritage
• Chillingham Castle
• Cragside - National Trust
• Lindisfarne Castle - National Trust
• Seaton Delaval Hall
• Wallington Hall - National Trust

North Yorkshire

• Beningbrough Hall - National Trust
• Castle Howard
• Constable Burton Hall
• Duncombe Park
• Kiplin Hall
• Newburgh Priory
• Newby Hall
• Norton Conyers
• Nunnington Hall - National Trust
• Ormesby Hall - National Trust
• Ripley Castle
• Stockeld Park
• Sutton Park
• Treasurer's House

Nottinghamshire

• Holme Pierrepont Hall
• Newstead Hall - Lord Byron's house

Oxfordshire

• Blenheim Palace - privately owned by the Duke of Marlborough
• Broughton Castle
• Buscot Park
• Kelmscott Manor
• Mapledurham House
• Milton House
• Rousham Park
• Stanton Harcourt Manor
• Stonor Park

Shropshire

• Acton Round Hall
• Attingham Park - National Trust
• Benthall Hall
• Dudmaston
• Shipton Hall
• Stokesay Castle
• Weston Park

Somerset

• Barrington Court - National Trust
• Clevedon Court - National Trust
• Montacute House - National Trust
• Orchard Wyndham

South Yorkshire

• Brodsworth Hall - English Heritage
• Wentworth Woodhouse - privately owned (public access to grounds only)

Staffordshire

• Biddulph Grange
• Blithfield Hall
• Chillington Hall
• Dovecliff Hall
• Ford Green Hall
• Madeley Old Hall
• Moseley Old Hall - National Trust
• Sandon Hall
• Shugborough Hall - National Trust
• Whitmore Hall

Suffolk

• Christchurch Mansion
• Euston Hall
• Ickworth - National Trust
• Kentwell Hall
• Melford Hall
• Otley Hall
• Somerleyton Hall

Surrey

• Clandon Park - National Trust
• Claremont
• Hatchlands Park - National Trust
• Loseley House
• Polesden Lacey - National Trust

For Sussex see East Sussex and West Sussex.

Warwickshire

• Anne Hathaway's Cottage
• Arbury Hall
• Baddesley Clinton - National Trust
• Charlecote Park - National Trust
• Coughton Court - National Trust
• Farnborough Hall
• Honington Hall
• Packwood House - National Trust
• Ragley Hall
• Upton House
• Warwick Castle

West Sussex

• Arundel Castle
• Goodwood
• Parham
• Petworth House - National Trust
• Standen - National Trust

West Midlands

• Aston Hall
• Blakesley Hall (Birmingham)
• Castle Bromwich Hall (private, but gardens open to public)
• Edgbaston Hall (Birmingham, private golf club)
• Hagley Hall
• Soho House Birmingham
• Wightwick Manor - National Trust

West Yorkshire

• Bramham Park
• Bronte Parsonage
• Cliffe Hall, also known as Cliff Castle
• East Riddlesden Hall - National Trust
• Harewood House
• Kirklees Hall
• Lotherton Estate
• Nostell Priory - National Trust
• Scout Hall - Shibden
• Shelley Hall
• Shibden Hall
• Sowerby Hall
• Temple Newsam House
• Tong Hall

Wiltshire

• Bowood House
• Corsham Court
• Great Chalfield Manor
• Lacock Abbey - National Trust
• Longleat
• Stourhead - National Trust
• Westwood Manor
• Wilton House

Worcestershire

• Hanbury Hall - National Trust
• Hartlebury Castle
• Harvington Hall
• Witley Court - English Heritage

For Yorkshire see East Riding of Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.

See also

• Historic houses in Scotland
• Historic houses in Wales
• Historic houses in Northern Ireland
• Historic houses in the Republic of Ireland, List of Conservation topics
• List of museums
• List of abbeys and priories
• List of castles
• National Trust Properties in England
• English Heritage Properties in England
• UK topics