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Stately home

The term is also used imprecisely by commentators on modern society such as Robin Leach in Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and parodists such as Dame Edna Everage.


Fabian Hamilton

He made his maiden speech on 23 June 1997, in which he explained that his constituency stretches from the inner-city Leeds district of Chapeltown all the way out to Harewood House, the stately home of the Earls of Harewood.

Theobalds House

Theobalds Palace (also known as Theobalds House), located in Cedars Park, just outside Cheshunt in the English county of Hertfordshire, was a prominent stately home and (later) royal palace of the 16th and early 17th centuries.


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Ben Harms

Uppark, a stately home in West Sussex was gutted by fire in 1989, and restored in 1994 in the National Trust's largest renovation project.

Castle Drogo

The stately home borrows styles of castle building from the medieval and Tudor periods, along with more minimalist contemporary approaches.

Château de Montmort

The Château de Montmort is a stately home built on the site of a medieval castle in the commune of Montmort-Lucy in the Marne département of France.

Château de Vieillevigne

The Château de Vieillevigne is a castle and stately home in the commune of Vieillevigne in the Haute-Garonne département of France.

Château de Villefranche

The Château de Villefranche is a castle and stately home in the commune of Villeneuve-lès-Bouloc in the Haute-Garonne département of France.

Cotwall End Valley

It is situated approximately one mile south-west of Sedgley town centre and incorporates some of the grounds of Ellowes Hall, a stately home which was built in the early 19th century and demolished in 1964, which has let to the wooded part of the valley being known locally as "Ellowes Hall Wood".

Ellowes Hall School

It was built as a secondary modern school by Sedgley Urban District Council in 1964 near the Ellowes Hall stately home (which was demolished that year), to replace a smaller secondary school at nearby Redhall, but since 1966 has existed within the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley.

Headfort

Headfort (sometimes called 'Headfort House'), a stately home and boarding school in County Meath, Ireland.

Hinton Ampner

Hinton Ampner House is a stately home with gardens within the civil parish of Bramdean and Hinton Ampner, near Alresford, Hampshire, England.

Kannitverstan

A young workman from Tuttlingen (then part of the Duchy of Württemberg) visited the cosmopolitan city of Amsterdam for the first time in his life and was impressed by a particularly stately home and a large ship laden with precious commodities.

Kneller

Kneller Hall, stately home in Twickenham, named after Sir Godfrey

Lonicera fragrantissima

In 1853 the editor of American gardening magazine The Horticulturist wrote that the previous year he had been sent a specimen from a plant that had been flowering in the gardens of Hatfield House, the Marquess of Salisbury's stately home in Hertfordshire.

Sainte-Geneviève, Quebec

At the heart of the conflict that led to the separation of Sainte-Geneviève was the famous lawyer Joseph-Adolphe Chauret, who in 1902 built a stately home reminiscent of homes in Pierrefonds, France, in the Department of Oise.

Sandersdorf

The village contains the Sandersdorf Castle, a 17th century stately home erected on the site of a fortified castle from the mid 12th century.

Sankt Gotthard im Mühlkreis

Attractions include Schloss Eschelberg, a stately home built in 1596, and the ruined 13th century Rottenegg Castle.

Woburn, Bedfordshire

Tiger Moth airplane rallies continue at Woburn Abbey with the 2013 rally seeing over 80 vintage and classic aircraft in the air above the stately home.

Wynyard Park

Wynyard Park, County Durham, a stately home in County Durham, England (formerly a seat of the Marquesses of Londonderry)