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2. English country house - Wikipedia

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   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. However, the term also encompasses houses that were ...

3. Wentworth Woodhouse - Wikipedia

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   1 June 1984. Reference no. 1001163 [ 2] Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It is currently owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust. [ 3] The building has more than 300 rooms, with 250,000 square feet (23,000 m 2) of ...

4. How a Private English Country House Became the Real ... - AOL

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   The private English country estate has never before appeared on film. ... In the living room where we first encounter the Catton family, the furniture is unsettlingly compact. At one point, the ...

5. Long gallery - Wikipedia

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   The Long Gallery at Ham House; this only has windows at the ends. In architecture, a long gallery is a long, narrow room, often with a high ceiling. In Britain, long galleries were popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses. They were normally placed on the highest reception floor of English country houses, usually running along a side of the ...

6. Servants' quarters - Wikipedia

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   Servants' quarters. At 18th-century Holkham Hall, service and secondary wings (foreground) clearly flank the mansion and were intended to be viewed as part of the overall facade. Servants' quarters, also known as staff's quarters, are those parts of a building, traditionally in a private house, which contain the domestic offices and staff ...

7. List of country houses in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   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.