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Charming vernacular buildings with mill and forge restored to working order . The Old Bakery is a stone-built and partially rendered building beneath thatch, which at the time of its closure as a business in 1987 was the last traditional working bake...
16th-century manor house with lovely Edwardian garden. A much-altered house of monastic origin, the present buildings date from the early 16th century, with notable Queen Anne alterations and Edwardian renovation. The garden was completely redesigned...
Charming 15th-century manor house and garden. Completed in 1480, the manor house is enhanced by a moat and gatehouse and has beautiful oriel windows and a great hall. The house and garden were restored c.1905-11 by Major R. Fuller, whose family live ...
Celebrated 20th-century garden in the beautiful North Cotswolds. One of England's great gardens, Hidcote was designed and created in the Arts & Crafts style by the horticulturist Major Lawrence Johnston. It is arranged as a series of outdoor rooms, e...
Intimate manor house with walled gardens and estate. The house with its 14th-century chapel and 15th-century Great Hall was much added to in the 16th century. In the 20th century it was rescued from dereliction by Sir Walter Jenner who refurnished th...
Cotswold manor house with eclectic collection and Arts and Crafts-style garden. Snowshill Manor contains Charles Paget Wade's extraordinary collection of craftmanship and design, including musical instruments, clocks, toys, bicycles, weavers' and spi...
5th-century stone manor house. The house was altered in the early 17th century and has late Gothic and Jacobean windows and fine plasterwork. There is a modern topiary garden....
Important brick-built Tudor gentry house, completed about 1573, little altered since. Early 17th-century wall-paintings showing fishing scenes and a cityscape grace the former Great Chamber. Evocative exposed timbers in attic, fine original spira...
Home of the Victorian statesman Benjamin Disraeli. Queen Victoria's trusted prime minister Benjamin Disraeli lived here from 1848 until his death in 1881. Most of his furniture, books and pictures remain in this, his private retreat from the rigours ...
Magnificent house and grounds in the style of a 19th-century French château Waddesdon Manor was built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1874 to display his outstanding collection of art treasures and to entertain the fashionable world. The ...
Remains of a late 13th-century knight's dwelling. This is all that is left of the manor house of c.1290 which stood until the 18th century. The solar chamber over a barrel-vaulted undercroft was once inhabited by a medieval knight....
Low stone-built medieval hall. Built between the 13th and 15th centuries, the hall's architectural features include a rare king post, medieval fireplace, a Tudor door and some 17th-century Flemish glass. The delightful gardens include a parterre herb...
Home of Isaac Newton. In this small 17th-century manor house, his birthplace and family home, Sir Isaac Newton formulated some of his major works between 1665 and 1667. An early edition of his Principia is on display and the orchard includes a...
Victorian manor house with William Morris interiors and colourful garden. Wightwick Manor is one of only a few surviving examples of a house built and furnished under the influence of the Arts & Crafts Movement. The many original William Morris wallp...
Elizabethan gabled manor house. Standing on the slopes of Wenlock Edge with fine views, the house dates from 1585. Although unfurnished, the interior is of interest for its remarkable wooden spiral staircase and fine plaster ceilings....
Penhallam Manor House is the site of a medieval manor house surrounded by a protective moat. It was designated as a Scheduled Monument in 1996 and is now in the guardianship of English Heritage. The site is a grass-covered ruin showing the comple...
Part of a medieval manor house, featuring a remarkable interior. The 600-year-old roofs of the hall and upper living room boast collar-beam trusses and timberwork of great complexity....
Part of a manor house of the Knights Templar, built in about 1240, with a fine first floor hall displaying traces of wall paintings....
The vast and immensely impressive ruins of a palatial medieval manor house arranged round a pair of courtyards, with a huge undercrofted Great Hall and a defensible High Tower 22 metres (72 feet) tall. This monument to late medieval 'conspicuous cons...
A rare and well-preserved example of a Norman house, encased in brick during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Burton Agnes Hall is an beautiful Elizabethan house offering the visitors chance to see its treasures including art, furniture and porcelain ...
Drayton Manor Theme Park is a hugely popular award-winning attraction. The park is set in 280 beautiful acres of lakes and parkland and is packed with great rides and attractions as well as a first rate zoo with many different species of animals. The...
Our interactive farm is packed with exciting attractions the whole family can enjoy! Have a close encounter with our friendly farm animals, and feed our feathered residents. Costumed characters set the scene for Victorian rural life. Take a trip ba...
Fareham's local museum, tells the story of the Borough from Portchester to Warsash, from Hill Head to Swanwick. Set in a fabulous Georgian building, the museum is right in the heart of Fareham town centre.
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Llancaiach Fawr is a living history museum. Step back in time enter the Manor restored and furnished as it was in 1645 when local allegiances changed from King to Parliament. Be welcomed by 17th Century servants who guide visitors around the Mano...
Chenies Manor House is a Grade I Listed Building, known as Chenies Palace. Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I both visited the house on many times accompanied by their Courts. The Manor has five acres of enchanting gardens including a Sunken Garden, Wh...
PLEASE NOTE: Princes Risborough Manor House is NO longer open to the public. Princes Risborough Manor House in Princes Risborough buckinghamshire is an elegant late 17th-century house once owned by Sir Peter Lely, painter to Charles II....
Trecarrell Manor Chapel and Hall is a small, mediaeval stone hall with beautiful oriel window and an impressive hearth. A minstrel's gallery completes the scene. Set in unspoilt natural countryside, with an small,ancient chapel next door, this place ...
Boston Manor House, one of West London’s lesser-known gems, is a fine Jacobean manor house built in 1623. Set back from Boston Manor Road in Brentford, the three-storey building is situated in parkland containing a lake and ancient cedar trees. ...
PM Gallery and House, Ealing's flagship cultural venue, comprises of the Grade I listed Pitzhanger Manor-House, designed by the architect John Soane in 1800 and PM Gallery, West London's premier professional contemporary arts venue....
Our beautiful 30 acre estate, first established in the late 13th century, provides a colourful and scented oasis surrounding a Georgian Manor House and Victorian Stables. It offers a unique opportunity to see behind the scenes at Greater London's ...
The Manor House is Tudor/Carolinian/ Jacobean, founded in the 13th Century, with tranquil gardens. There are fine furniture and paintings.
Tours - 2, 3, 4pm Wednesdays, Thursdays, Sundays, Bank Holidays. Open Easter to the end of September.
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The museum is based in a Medieval Manor House dating back to 1280. The house has a fascinating history and is now restored with fine oak furnishings. Visitors to the house can now see restored rooms and displays on medieval life as well as a series o...
Since opening to the public in 1994 we have developed child-focussed activities and facilities to encourage and build youngsters’ understanding of the natural world around them.
Although not a working farm, we offer children (and their families)...
Come along and visit two of Birmingham's oldest houses. These two beautiful timber-framed manor houses were actually moved and rebuilt in the village of Bournville by the Cadbury family. Both timber-framed houses have beautiful oak furniture and dome...
Visitors to Sulgrave on non-event days, see the Manor on a guided tour. We are known for the excellence of our tours, which are both informative and entertaining.
Tours last for about 1 1/4 hours in the house; and then take a stroll around the bea...
This peaceful ten acre garden occupies a hillside position extending down from the 17th century manor house, constructed of mellow Northamptonshire stone. Landscaped on different levels, it comprises a series of distinctive smaller gardens, providing...
Temporary exhibitions, regular activities and a 'hands-on' approach to history make this a lively and vibrant place to visit, appealing to children and adults alike. Special events for families take place regularly and there are children's activities...
At Prebendal Manor House you can discover the history of the manor and find out about the prebendaries; you can learn about our recreated medieval gardens and see some photographs of both the manor and the gardens. You can also read the archeological...
Six-acre garden open to the public with home-made teas available. Garden built on historic monastic site dating from 12thC. Extensive woodland walks....
One of the best-loved privately owned gardens in England created by the late Margery Fish, celebrated plantswoman and gardening writer. Her natural gift for combining old-fashioned and contemporary plants in a relaxed and informal manner has created ...
Please note: Gaulden Manor is NOW CLOSED. A limestone manor house with a bog garden, herb garden, herbaceous borders, fish pond and a secret garden planted with white flowered plants....
The front of Carew Manor School with the Dovecote on the left. The school is a former country house. The roof of the great hall dates from around 1500 and is grade 1 listed. The Heritage Service arranges tours of the hall, cellars and dovecote on som...
Wander through an unimposing archway in Church Street close by All Saints Church and you will discover Ilkley's most treasured building: The Manor House. Although it has undergone many alterations since the 13th century when it was first built it rem...
This Grade I Italian-style garden is famous for its tranquil beauty and was the home of architect and landscape gardener, Harold A. Peto from 1899 to 1933. This unique and romantic hillside garden is characterised by steps,
terraces, sculpture and...
Sheldon Manor is Wiltshire's oldest inhabited manor house with a 13th century porch and a 15th century chapel. Gardens with ancient yews, a mulberry tree and a profusion of old fashioned roses blooming in May and June.
The earliest documentary evi...
The grand Edwardian-style gardens at Hazelbury were laid out by the not-then-naked gardeners (see The Abbey House) in the 1970s and 1980s. Fine topiary, deep and colourful herbaceous borders, a circle of menhirs and a laburnum walk are the principal ...
Chambercombe Manor in its secluded setting found ownership and prominence among the Norman Knighthood the Medieval Court and later the notorious 'Wreckers' of Ilfracombe. Now held in trust and open to the public Chambercombe Manor offers a distinctly...
Preston Manor is a charming manor house on the outskirts of the city. Decorated and furnished in Edwardian style with elegant 'upstairs' reception rooms and bedrooms and 'downstairs' kitchens and servants’ rooms. Entrance fee payable....
Pashley Manor is a quintessential English garden located on the Sussex and Kent border in the heart of South East England's garden country. Pashley offers a sumptuous blend of romantic landscaping, imaginative plantings and fine old trees, fountains,...
Saint Hill Manor, located on the outskirts of East Grinstead, is reputed to be the finest 18th century sandstone building in Sussex. It is also one of the few historical attractions that is open to the public all year round, even during the autumn an...
Coates Manor is set in an acre garden with specimen trees, flowering shrubs and foliage plants providing interest in all seasons. Small walled garden with many unusual climbers and perennials.
Visits by appointment only....
Alford Manor House is reputedly the largest thatched manor house in the country, Alford Manor House was built to a traditional H plan in 1611. It is a very rare example of a composite structure, featuring a wooden frame with reed and plaster (visible...
In 1822 a great European traveller and collector, Gregory Williams, inherited the Harlaxton estate, near Grantham. Williams, who changed his name to Gregory Gregory, decided to commission a new country seat befitting a man of taste and his collection...
Rodmarton Manor is the supreme example of a house built and all its furniture made according to Arts and Crafts ideals and was one of the last country houses to be built and furnished in the old traditional style when everything was done by hand with...
Owlpen Manor , home of Sir Nicholas and Lady Mander and their family of five children, has long been recognised as one of the most romantic Tudor manor houses in southern England. Set in a picturesque valley among bluebell woods right under the Cotsw...
Kelmscott Manor, a grade 1 listed farmhouse adjacent to the River Thames, was built around 1600, with an additional wing added to the north east corner in about 1665. The Manor is built of local limestone on the edge of the village of Kelmscott. ...
Scolton Manor Museum and Visitor Centre is set in a traditional Victorian country house, Scolton Manor was designed, built and furnished by the local firm of architects William and James Owen. Completed in 1842 the house cost just under 3,000 pounds ...
Anna Ryder Richardson's Wild Welsh Zoo has something for everyone! Experience close-up meetings with endangered animals from all over the world. Meet TV stars Steve and Lisa, Tommy the Tapir and his new mate Rio. Yumusak the Bactrian camel is n...
Manorbier Castle and Garden has such a splendid setting overlooking a beautiful unspoilt beach, families love to explore Manorbier Castle and bring a little bit of history to life. The impressive Great Hall, Chapel and Turrets are dotted with life...
Feeringbury Manor Garden has been made over the last 30 years and is now well established. It surrounds a pretty 14th century house. The garden of Feeringbury Manor is filled with flowers and at all times of the year there are interesting plants t...
Set in the beautiful countryside in the Hertfordshire and Essex border, Little Easton Manor is the home to The Barn Theatre and The Turkey Barn. The historic barn is one of the finest and oldest Tithe Barns in the country with magnificent oak timb...
