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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.
St. Paul's Walden Bury is an English country house and surrounding gardens in the village of St Paul's Walden in Hertfordshire. The house is a Grade II* listed, and the gardens Grade I. A home of the Bowes-Lyon family, it is possibly the site of the birth of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. [1]
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.
An Elizabethan country house which was owned by Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth I. It is a leading and early example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. It was based on the designs in French architectural pattern books and expanded in the Classical style over the course of the following decades. Rushton Triangular Lodge ...
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 house, with windows on one side and at the ends giving views, and ...
Cliveden (pronounced / ˈ k l ɪ v d ən /) is an English country house and estate in the care of the National Trust in Buckinghamshire, on the border with Berkshire.The Italianate mansion, also known as Cliveden House, crowns an outlying ridge of the Chiltern Hills close to the South Bucks villages of Burnham and Taplow.
Life in the English Country House. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-02273-5. Greaves, Simon (2014). The Country House at War: Fighting the Great War at Home and In The Trenches. National Trust Books. ISBN 978-1-907-89277-6. Gomme, Andor; Maguire, Alison (2008). Design and Plan in the Country House: From Castle Donjons to Palladian Boxes. Yale ...
Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England.Owned by the National Trust and managed by the Rothschild Foundation, it is one of the National Trust's most visited properties, with over 463,000 visitors in 2019.