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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.
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. [1]
Avis Crocombe (c. 1839–1927) was an English domestic servant who was the head cook during the 1880s at Audley End House, a 17th-century country house near Saffron Walden in England. She found fame nearly a century after her death due to being portrayed in a series of YouTube videos made by English Heritage, who now manage the site. These ...
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.
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 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.
Wrotham Park (pronounced / ˈ r uː t ə m /, ROO-təm) [1] is a neo-Palladian English country house in the parish of South Mimms, Hertfordshire. It lies south of the town of Potters Bar, 17 miles (27 km) from Hyde Park Corner in central London.
Chequers (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ k ər z / CHEK-ərz) is the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.A 16th-century manor house in origin, it is near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, 40 miles (64 km) north-west of central London.