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- Longleat House and Safari Park
- The house is widely regarded as the best example of high Elizabethan architecture in Britain. Visitor information includes details of the library and archives assembled by the Thynne family since the 1540s.
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- Lost Heritage
- Matthew Beckett provides a list of the many country houses which have been demolished in England since 1800, with images and history of a featured selection.
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- Lulworth Castle
- Official web-site of this early 17th-century mock-castle in Dorset, gutted by fire in 1929 but partly restored and open to the public.
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- Mellerstain
- This great house in the Scottish Borders was begun in 1725, overseen by architect William Adam and completed 70 years later by Robert Adam. History, photographs, news and attractions.
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- Owlpen Manor
- This fine Tudor manor house in the Cotswolds is open to the public. Includes a history of the manor and description of its architecture, and visitor information.
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- Scotland's Castles and Historic Houses
- Articles, with photographs and plans, on Traquair, Mary Queen of Scots House, Linlithgow Palace, Hermitage Castle, Castle Urquhart, Crichton Castle, Strome Castle, Threave Castle and Caerlaverock Castle, from Scotland HolidayNet.
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- St Michael's Mount
- Crowning an island off the coast of Cornwall is the home of the St Aubyn family, incorporating parts of the priory that once stood there. Includes history and room tour.
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- Sutton Park
- The official site of an early Georgian house in Yorkshire gives a history, photographic tour and visitor information.
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- The DiCamillo Companion to British and Irish Country Houses
- A database that aims to list every British and Irish country house from circa 1500 to 1945, standing or demolished. Also an online shop.
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- Turncroft Hall
- A history of this small country house in Lancashire, two centuries old and refronted in the simplified classicism of the early Victorian period.
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- Waddesdon Manor
- This astonishing Renaissance-style château was designed by French architect Destailleur in 1874 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. Includes history, images and visitor information.
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- Spencer House
- Fine example of an eighteenth-century aristocratic private palace in London, overlooking Green Park. Includes history, online tour via sensitive plan or list, and visitor information.
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- St Mary's Lodge, London
- History, photographs, plans and current status of this grand early Victorian house in Stoke Newington, London N16, designed and constructed by the architect John Young for himself.
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- The Mackintosh House
- A QuickTime virtual reality tour of the house of architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), with its original contents restored. Visitor information.
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- Bell Rock Lighthouse
- Statistics, history, illustrations and information on light situated eleven miles off the county of Angus on the east coast of Scotland.
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- The Friends of Leasowe Lighthouse
- Voluntary group involved in renovating an 18th century lighthouse to the benefit of the local community. Live webcam images provided.