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Belton House is an English country house in Lincolnshire. An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these people, the term distinguished between town and country.
This is intended to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; any architecturally notable building which has served as a residence for a significant family or a notable figure in history.
Rolling Rock Club is a private country club located on 25,000 acres ... R.B. Mellon left the estate to his son, Richard King Mellon, when he died in 1933. In the ...
Sandringham House was the beloved private country home of the late Queen Elizabeth. From its tidal mudflats and fruit farms to the the famous museum and gardens, it's an estate that has seen many ...
The country estate that features in the film, known in real-life as Drayton House, is a crenelated manse based in Northamptonshire that has been in the Stopford-Sackville family since 1770.
The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical Irish and British social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate. It is the British element of the wider European class of gentry.
Wentworth Woodhouse is a large rural estate, extending to 15,000 acres including the country house. The "estate" formed an economic system where the profits from its produce and rents (of housing or agricultural land) sustained the main household, formerly known as the manor house.
Terry Pratchett had Sam Vimes discover that his wife's country estate housed an ornamental hermit in his 2011 novel Snuff. The podcast This Job is History featured Garden Hermits as a job on November 28, 2022.