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==Stately homes of England==
[[File:Longleat House.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|left|In the 20th century [[Longleat House]] was the first country house to open to the paying public, and also claims the first [[safari park]] outside Africa.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article737168.ece The lions and loins of Longleat] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629121155/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article737168.ece |date=29 June 2011 }} ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' Retrieved 18 February 2011</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=trZX7dbuW54C&dq=longleat+first+safari+park&pg=PA554 ''New Scientist'' 2 Dec 1982] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521085347/https://books.google.com/books?id=trZX7dbuW54C&pg=PA554&dq=longleat%20first%20safari%20park&hl=en&ei=OERgTfLoD46P4Qb62p3YCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=longleat%20first%20safari%20park&f=false |date=21 May 2016 }} Retrieved 18 February 2011</ref>
The term ''stately home'' is subject to debate, and avoided by historians and other academics. As a description of a country house, the term was first used in a poem by [[Felicia Hemans]], "The Homes of England", originally published in ''[[Blackwood's Magazine]]'' in 1827. In the 20th century, the term was later popularised in a song by [[Noël Coward]],<ref>"The Stately Homes of England" by Noël Coward (1938) was featured in his musical [[Operette (musical)|"Operette"]], which premiered in the same year.</ref> and in modern usage it often implies a country house that is open to visitors at least some of the time.{{Citation needed |date=November 2019}}
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=== Victorian houses ===
[[File:WaddesdonManor.JPG|thumb|[[Waddesdon Manor]], [[Buckinghamshire]]. During the Victorian era, vast country houses were built in a variety of styles by wealthy industrialists and bankers.]]
Following the [[Industrial Revolution]] of the 18th century, a third category of country houses was built as newly rich industrialists and bankers were eager to display their wealth and taste. By the 1850s, with the English economy booming, new mansions were built in one of the many [[Revivalism (architecture)|revivalist]] architectural styles popular throughout the 19th century.<ref name="Hall, p25">Hall, p25.</ref> The builders of these new houses were able to take advantage of the political unrest in Europe that gave rise to a large trade in architectural salvage.<ref name="Hall, p25"/> This new wave of country house building is exemplified by the [[Rothschild properties in the
== Decline ==
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== Today ==
Today, many country houses have become hotels,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.aglaiamagazine.com/burley-manor-new-forest-review/|title=Staying at an English Manor House|date=2018-11-06|work=AGLAIA Magazine|access-date=2019-01-19|language=en-GB|archive-date=19 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174832/https://www.aglaiamagazine.com/burley-manor-new-forest-review/|url-status=live}}</ref> schools, hospitals and museums, while others have survived as conserved ruins, but from the early 20th century until the early 1970s, [[Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain|hundreds of country houses were demolished]]. Houses that survived destruction are now mostly Grade I or II [[Listed buildings in England|listed]] as buildings of historic interest with restrictions on restoration and re-creation work. However such work is usually very expensive. Several houses have been restored, some over many years. For example at [[Copped Hall]] where the restoration started in 1995 continues to this day.
Although the ownership or management of some houses has been transferred to a [[Trust law|private trust]], most notably at [[Chatsworth House|Chatsworth]], other houses have transferred art works and furnishings under the [[Acceptance in Lieu]] scheme to ownership by various national or local museums, but retained for display in the building. This enables the former owners to offset tax, the payment of which would otherwise have necessitated the private sale of the art works. For example, tapestries and furniture at [[Houghton Hall]] are now owned by the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]]. In addition, increasing numbers of country houses hold licences for weddings and [[Civil ceremony|civil ceremonies]]. Another source of income is to use the house as a venue for parties,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.landedhouses.co.uk/parties|title=Large Houses to Rent for Parties|date=2012-06-09|work=Mansions & Large Houses for Rent for Parties & Weddings UK|access-date=2017-03-22|language=en-GB|archive-date=8 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208103928/https://www.landedhouses.co.uk/party-houses/|url-status=live}}</ref> a [[Filming location|film location]] or a [[corporate entertainment]] venue. While many country houses are open to the public and derive income through that means, they remain homes, in some cases inhabited by the descendants of their original owners.
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* ''[[Downton Abbey]]''
* ''[[The Edwardian Country House]]'' (a [[Channel 4]] series)
* ''[[Country House (song)|Country House]]''
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