List of country houses in the United Kingdom

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This is intended to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; any architecturally notable building which has served as a residence for a significant family or a notable figure in history. The list includes smaller castles, abbeys and priories that were converted into a private residence, and also buildings now within urban areas which retain some of their original character, whether now with or without extensive gardens.

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England

Bedfordshire

Berkshire

City of Bristol

Buckinghamshire

Cambridgeshire

Cheshire


Cornwall

Cumbria

Derbyshire

Devon

Dorset

County Durham

East Riding of Yorkshire

East Sussex

Essex

Gloucestershire

Greater London

Greater Manchester

Hampshire

Herefordshire

Hertfordshire

Isle of Wight

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Merseyside

Norfolk

Northamptonshire

Northumberland

North Yorkshire

Nottinghamshire

Oxfordshire

Rutland

Shropshire

Somerset

South Yorkshire

Staffordshire

Suffolk

Surrey

Tyne and Wear

Warwickshire

West Midlands

West Sussex

West Yorkshire

Wiltshire

Worcestershire

Channel Islands

Guernsey

Herm

Jersey

Northern Ireland

Belfast

County Antrim

County Armagh

County Down

County Fermanagh

County Londonderry

County Tyrone

Scotland

Aberdeen

Aberdeenshire

Angus

Argyll and Bute

Clackmannanshire

Dumfries and Galloway

Dundee

East Ayrshire

East Dunbartonshire

East Lothian

East Renfrewshire

Edinburgh

Falkirk

Fife

Glasgow

Highland

Inverclyde

Midlothian

Moray

North Ayrshire

North Lanarkshire

Orkney Islands

Perth and Kinross

Renfrewshire

Scottish Borders

Shetland Islands

South Ayrshire

South Lanarkshire

Stirling

West Dunbartonshire

West Lothian

Western Isles

Wales

Bridgend

Caerphilly

Cardiff

Carmarthenshire

Ceredigion

Conwy

Denbighshire

Flintshire

Gwynedd

Isle of Anglesey

Merthyr Tydfil

Monmouthshire

Neath Port Talbot

Newport

Pembrokeshire

Powys

Rhondda Cynon Taf

Swansea

Vale of Glamorgan

Wrexham

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Notes

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  2. 1 2 3 Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 106.
  3. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 102.
  4. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , pp. 123–124.
  5. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , pp. 125–127.
  6. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 187.
  7. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 192.
  8. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , pp. 195–198.
  9. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 83.
  10. ↑ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1027679)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 22 August 2011.
  11. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 221.
  12. 1 2 Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 223.
  13. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 232.
  14. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 242.
  15. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 254.
  16. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 215.
  17. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 285.
  18. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 320.
  19. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , p. 321.
  20. ↑ Nairn & Pevsner 1965 , pp. 276–277.
  21. ↑ Abby Boulter (21 August 2014) "Temporary closure to hit Bryngarw House as cost-saving measures bite", Wales Online. Retrieved 20 March 2016.

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