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Nancy Lancaster (10 September 1897 – 19 August 1994) was a 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of Colefax & Fowler, an influential British decorating firm that codified what is known as the English country house look.
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.
Audley End House is a largely early 17th-century country house outside Saffron Walden, Essex, England. It is a prodigy house , known as one of the finest Jacobean houses in England. Audley End is now one-third of its original size, but is still large, with much to enjoy in its architectural features and varied collections.
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.
Holkham Hall (/ ˈ h oʊ k ə m / or / ˈ h ɒ l k ə m / [1]) is an 18th-century country house near the village of Holkham, Norfolk, England, constructed in the Neo-Palladian style for the 1st Earl of Leicester (of the fifth creation of the title) by the architect William Kent, aided by Lord Burlington. [a] [b]
Knole (/ n oʊ l /) is a British country house and former archbishop's palace owned by the National Trust.It is situated within Knole Park, a 1,000-acre (400-hectare) park located immediately to the south-east of Sevenoaks in west Kent.
The Victorian Country House. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-30002-3909. Hall, Michael (1994). The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life 1897–1939. London: Reed International Books. ISBN 978-1-85732-5300. OCLC 832426788. Hall, Michael (2009). The Victorian Country House. London, UK: Aurum Press.
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