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[[File:Ham House (7776599228).jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|[[Ham House]] is an English country house in [[Richmond, London|Richmond]], England.]]
An '''English country house''' is a large house or [[mansion]] in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a [[Townhouse (Great Britain)|town house]]. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these people, the term distinguished between town and country. However, the term also encompasses houses that were, and often still are, the full-time residence for the [[landed gentry]] that ruled rural Britain until the [[Reform Act 1832]].<ref>As documented in ''The Purefoy Letters, 1735–53'' by L. G Mitchell.</ref> Frequently, the formal business of the [[Historic counties of England|counties]] was transacted in these country houses, having functional antecedents in [[manor houses]].
With large numbers of indoor and outdoor staff, country houses were important as places of employment for many rural communities. In turn, until the [[Great Depression of British Agriculture|agricultural depressions of the 1870s]], the estates, of which country houses were the hub, provided their owners with incomes. However, the late 19th and early 20th centuries were the swansong of the traditional English country house lifestyle. Increased taxation and the effects of World War I led to the [[Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain|demolition of hundreds of houses]]; those that remained had to adapt to survive.
While a [[château]] or a ''[[Schloss]]'' can be a fortified or unfortified building, a country house, similar to an ''[[Ansitz]]'', is usually unfortified. If fortified, it is called a castle, but not all buildings with the name "castle" are fortified (for example [[Highclere Castle]]).
==Stately homes of England==
[[File:Longleat House.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|left|[[Longleat House]] was the first country house to open to the 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&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 ''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> It became the first property in what later was known as the stately home industry.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}]]
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}}
[[File:Blenheim Palace 2014.jpg|alt=Exterior of a large English Baroque palace fronted by lawns and gardens|thumb|500x500px|Blenheim Palace]]
In England, the terms "country house" and "stately home" are sometimes used vaguely and interchangeably; however, many country houses such as [[Ascott House|Ascott]] in Buckinghamshire were deliberately designed not to be stately, and to harmonise with the landscape, while some of the great houses such as [[Kedleston Hall]] and [[Holkham Hall]] were built as "power houses" to dominate the landscape, and were most certainly intended to be "stately" and impressive.<ref>Girouard, p.</ref> In his book ''Historic Houses: Conversations in Stately Homes'', the author and journalist [[Robert Harling (typographer)|Robert Harling]] documents nineteen "stately homes"; these range in size from the vast [[Blenheim Palace]] to the minuscule [[Ebberston Hall]], and in architecture from the Jacobean Renaissance of [[Hatfield House]] to the eccentricities of [[Sezincote]]. The book's collection of stately homes also includes [[King George IV of the United Kingdom|George IV's]] Brighton town palace, the [[Royal Pavilion]].<ref>Harling, p 1–16.</ref>
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== Evolution ==
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[[File:Forde Abbey 06.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|[[Forde Abbey]] in Dorset. Many country houses have evolved and been extended over several centuries. Here, the architecture runs from Medieval ecclesiastical to [[Palladian]] and on to [[Strawberry Hill Gothic]], while at sometime an attempt at unity has been made by the use of [[crenelation]].]]
The country houses of England have evolved over the last five hundred years. Before this time, larger houses were usually fortified, reflecting the position of their owners as [[Feudalism|feudal lords]], ''de facto'' overlords of their [[Manorialism|manors]]. The [[Tudor period]] of stability in the country saw the building of the first of the unfortified great houses. [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]'s [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] saw many former [[ecclesiastical]] properties granted to the King's favourites, who then converted them into private country houses. [[Woburn Abbey]], [[Forde Abbey]] and many other mansions with ''[[abbey]]'' or ''[[priory]]'' in their name became private houses during this period. Other terms used in the names of houses to describe their origin or importance include ''[[palace]]'', ''[[castle]]'', ''[[Court (royal)|court]]'', ''[[hall]]'', ''[[mansion]]'', ''park'', ''house'', ''[[Manor House|manor]]'', and ''[[Location (geography)|place]]''.
It was during the second half of the reign of [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]], and under her successor, [[James I of England|James I]], that the first architect-designed mansions, thought of today as epitomising the English country house, began to make their appearance. [[Burghley House]], [[Longleat|Longleat House]], and [[Hatfield House]] are among the best-known examples of the showy [[prodigy house]], often built with the intention of attracting the monarch to visit. By the reign of [[Charles I of England|Charles I]], [[Inigo Jones]] and his form of [[Palladianism]] had changed the face of English domestic architecture completely, with the use of turrets and towers as an architectural reference to the earlier castles and fortified houses completely disappearing. The Palladian style, in various forms, interrupted briefly by [[baroque]], was to predominate until the second half of the 18th century when, influenced by ancient Greek styles, it gradually evolved into the [[neoclassicism]] championed by such architects as [[Robert Adam]].
[[File:Brympton dEvercy 03.jpg|thumb|left|[[Brympton d'Evercy]] in Somerset evolved from the Medieval period; its provincial architects are long forgotten. Yet, [[Christopher Hussey (historian)|Christopher Hussey]] described it as "The most incomparable house in Britain, the one which created the greatest impression and summarises so exquisitely English country life qualities".<ref name="Country Life 1927">Country Life, Saturday, 7 May 1927.</ref>]]
Some of the best known of England's country houses were built by one architect at one particular time: [[Montacute House]], [[Chatsworth House]], and [[Blenheim Palace]] are examples. While the latter two are [[Duke|ducal]] [[palace]]s, Montacute, although built by a [[Master of the Rolls]] to Queen Elizabeth I, was occupied for the next 400 years by his descendants, who were gentry without a London [[townhouse]], rather than aristocracy. They finally ran out of funds in the early 20th century.
However, the vast majority of the lesser-known English country houses, often owned at different times by gentlemen and [[peerage|peers]], are an evolution of one or more styles with facades and wings in different styles in a mixture of high architecture, often as interpreted by a local architect or surveyor, and determined by practicality as much as by the whims of architectural taste. An example of this is [[Brympton d'Evercy]] in Somerset, a house of many periods that is unified architecturally by the continuing use of the same mellow, local [[Hamstone|Ham Hill stone]].
The fashionable [[William Kent]] redesigned [[Rousham House]] only to have it quickly and drastically altered to provide space for the owner's twelve children. [[Canons Ashby House|Canons Ashby]], home to poet [[John Dryden]]'s family, is another example of architectural evolution: a medieval farmhouse enlarged in the [[Tudor era]] around a courtyard, given grandiose plaster ceilings in the [[Stuart period]], and then having [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] façades added in the 18th century. The whole is a glorious mismatch of styles and fashions that seamlessly blend together. These could be called the true English country house. [[Wilton House]], one of England's grandest houses, is in a remarkably similar vein; although, while the Drydens, mere squires, at Canons Ashby employed a local architect, at Wilton the mighty [[Earls of Pembroke]] employed the finest architects of the day: first [[Hans Holbein the Younger|Holbein]], 150 years later Inigo Jones, and then Wyatt followed by Chambers. Each employed a different style of architecture, seemingly unaware of the design of the wing around the next corner. These varying "improvements", often criticised at the time, today are the qualities that make English country houses unique.
==Sizes and types==
{{quote|Wealthy and influential people, often bored with their formal duties, go to the country in order to get out of London, the ugliest and most uncomfortable city in the world; they invented the long week-end to stay away as long as possible. Their {{lang|fr|métier}} is politics; they talk politics; and they make politics, quite spontaneously.|[[John Gunther]], 1940<ref name="gunther1940">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.149663/2015.149663.Inside-Europe#page/n309/mode/2up | title=Inside Europe | publisher=Harper & Brothers | author=Gunther, John | author-link=John Gunther | location=New York | year=1940 | page=287}}</ref>}}
There are no written terms for distinguishing between vast country palaces and comparatively small country houses; the descriptive terms, which can include ''castle'', ''manor'' and ''court'', provide no firm clue and are often only used because of a historical connection with the site of such a building.<ref>The term palace is very seldom used in England at all, especially for a country house, and when it is used, it can be for a fairly small house such as [[Eltham Palace]] with former royal connections or a monumentally huge house such as [[Blenheim Palace]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}</ref> Therefore, for ease or explanation, Britain's country houses can be categorised according to the circumstances of their creation.
=== Power houses ===
[[File:Kedleston Hall 20080730-04.jpg|thumb|left|[[Kedleston Hall]] designed by [[Matthew Brettingham]] and [[Robert Adam]], one of the great power houses.]]
The [[great house]]s are the largest of the country houses; in truth palaces, built by the country's most powerful – these were designed to display their owners' power or ambitions to power.<ref>Girouard, p2-12.</ref> Really large unfortified or barely fortified houses began to take over from the traditional [[castle]]s of the crown and magnates during the Tudor period, with vast houses such as [[Hampton Court Palace]] and [[Burghley House]], and continued until the 18th century with houses such as [[Castle Howard]], [[Kedleston Hall]] and [[Holkham Hall]].<ref>Girouard, p. 2-12.</ref> Such building reached its zenith from the late 17th century until the mid-18th century; these houses were often completely built or rebuilt in their entirety by one eminent architect in the most fashionable architectural style of the day and often have a suite of Baroque state apartments, typically in [[Enfilade (architecture)|enfilade]], reserved for the most eminent guests, the entertainment of whom was of paramount importance in establishing and maintaining the power of the owner. The common denominator of this category of English country houses is that they were designed to be lived in with a certain degree of ceremony and pomp. It was not unusual for the family to have a small suite of rooms for withdrawing in privacy away from the multitude that lived in the household. These houses were always an alternative residence to a London house.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, for the highest echelons of English society, the country house served as a place for relaxing, hunting and running the country with one's equals at the end of the week, with some houses having their own [[Country House Theatres|theatre]] where performances were staged.
The country house, however, was not just an oasis of pleasure for a fortunate few; it was the centre of its own world, providing employment to hundreds of people in the vicinity of its [[estate (house)|estate]]. In previous eras, when state benefits were unheard of, those working on an estate were among the most fortunate, receiving secured employment and rent-free accommodation. At the summit of this category of people was the indoor staff of the country house. Unlike many of their contemporaries prior to the 20th century, they slept in proper beds, wore well-made adequate clothes and received three proper meals a day, plus a small wage. In an era when many still died from malnutrition or lack of medicine, the long working hours were a small price to pay.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}
As a result of the aristocratic habit of only marrying within the aristocracy, and whenever possible to a sole heiress, many owners of country houses owned several country mansions,<ref>Worsley, p. 10.</ref> and would visit each according to the season: [[Grouse]] shooting in [[Scotland]], [[pheasant]] shooting and [[fox hunting]] in England. The [[Earl of Rosebery]], for instance, had [[Dalmeny House]] in Scotland, [[Mentmore Towers]] in Buckinghamshire, and another house near [[Epsom]] just for the racing season.<ref>McKinstrey, p181.</ref> For many, this way of life, which began a steady decline in 1914, continued well into the 20th century, and for a very few continues to this day.
=== Minor country houses ===
In the second category of Britain's country houses are those that belonged to the squirearchy or [[landed gentry]]. These tend either to have evolved from medieval hall houses, with rooms added as required, or were purpose-built by relatively unknown local architects. Smaller, and far greater in number than the "power houses", these were still the epicentre of their own estate, but were often the only residence of their owner.
However, whether the owner of a "power house" or a small manor, the inhabitants of the English country house have become collectively referred to as the ruling class, because this is exactly what they did in varying degrees, whether by having high political influence and power in national government, or in the day-to-day running of their own localities or "county" in such offices as [[Lord Lieutenant|lord/deputy lieutenant]], [[magistrates]], or occasionally even clergy.<ref>Girouard, p2, describes a squire as "like a little king in his village.</ref>
The [[Closed circle of suspects#Country house mystery|Country house mystery]] was a popular genre of English detective fiction in the 1920s and 1930s; set in the residence of the [[Landed gentry|gentry]] and often involving a murder in a country house temporarily isolated by a snowstorm or similar with the suspects all at a weekend house party.
=== 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 Home counties]] and [[Bletchley Park]] (rebuilt in several styles, and famous for its code-breaking role in World War II).
== Decline ==
{{See also|Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain}}
[[File:TrenthamBalustrade.jpg|thumb|[[Trentham Gardens|Trentham]], [[Staffordshire]]. During the 20th century, thousands of country houses were demolished, their stone and fixtures sold. During this era, many fine architectural features were transported to the US.]]
The slow decline of the English country house coincided with the rise not just of taxation, but also of modern industry, along with the agricultural depression of the 1870s. By 1880, this had led some owners into financial shortfalls as they tried to balance maintenance of their estates with the income they provided. Some relied on funds from secondary sources such as banking and trade while others, like the severely impoverished [[Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough|Duke of Marlborough]], sought to marry American heiresses to save their country houses and lifestyles.<ref>Stuart, p. 135.</ref>
The ultimate demise began immediately following [[World War I]]. The members of the huge staff required to maintain large houses had either left to fight and never returned, departed to work in the munitions factories, or filled the void left by the fighting men in other workplaces. Of those who returned after the war, many left the countryside for better-paid jobs in towns. The final blow for many country houses came following [[World War II]]; having been requisitioned during the war, they were returned to the owners in poor repair. Many estate owners, having lost their heirs, if not in the immediately preceding war then in World War I, were now paying far higher rates of tax, and agricultural incomes had dropped. Thus, the solution for many was to hold [[English country house contents auctions|contents auctions]] and then demolish the house and sell its stone, [[fireplace]]s, and [[panelling]]. This is what happened to many of Britain's finest houses.
Despite this slow decline, so necessary was the country house for entertaining and prestige that in 1917 [[Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham|Viscount Lee of Fareham]] donated his country house [[Chequers]] to the nation for the use of a prime minister who might not possess one of his own. Chequers still fulfills that need today as do both [[Chevening House]] and [[Dorneywood]], donated for sole use of high-ranking ministers of the Crown.
== 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, museums and prisons, 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 as buildings of historic interest—and only the most faithful, most accurate, and most precise restoration and re-creation are permitted. Such work, however, is usually very expensive, although the system does ensure that everything is done correctly and authentically. The negative side is that many owners cannot afford the work, so a roof remains leaking for the sake of a cheap roof tile.
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 are retained for display in the building. This enables the former owners to offset tax, the payment of which would otherwise have necessitated the 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]] and a [[corporate entertainment]] venue. While many country houses are open to the public, they remain inhabited private houses, in some cases by the descendants of their original owners.
The lifestyles of those living and working in a country house in the early 20th century were recreated in a [[BBC]] television programme, ''[[The Edwardian Country House]]'', which was filmed at [[Manderston House]] in Scotland. Another particularly popular television programme that features the dynamics of life in country houses is ''[[Downton Abbey]]'', which aired on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[PBS]] in the [[United States]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/downton-abbey/|title=Downton Abbey on MASTERPIECE on PBS|website=[[PBS]]|access-date=29 October 2019|archive-date=26 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026091952/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/downton-abbey/|url-status=live}}</ref>
== See also ==
{{portal|England|Housing}}
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* [[English country houses with changed use]]
* [[Estate houses in Scotland]]
* [[List of country houses in the United Kingdom]]
* [[List of National Trust properties in England]]
* [[List of English Heritage properties]]
* [[List of castles in England]]
* [[List of historic buildings of the United Kingdom]] – country house architectural periods and styles
* [[Historic house]]
* ''[[The Edwardian Country House]]'', a [[Channel 4]] series
* ''[[Downton Abbey]]''
* [[Manor house]]
* [[Prodigy house]]
* [[Roman villa]]
* [[British country house contents auctions]]
* [[Country house theatre]]
* [[Country house poem]]
* [[Treasure Houses of England]]
* ''[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]''
{{div col end}}
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==External links==
{{Commons|Castles, palaces and houses in England}}
* [http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk The National Trust – England, Wales, & Northern Ireland]
* [http://www.nts.org.uk The National Trust for Scotland]
* [http://www.english-heritage.org.uk English Heritage]
* [http://www.hha.org.uk Historic Houses Association]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080514000859/http://www.hudsonsguide.co.uk/ Hudson's Historic Houses and Gardens] – [[Norman Hudson|Hudson's]] list of 2,000 properties open to the public
* [http://www.dicamillocompanion.com The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses]
* [http://www.lostheritage.org.uk Lost Heritage – A Memorial to the Lost Country Houses of England]
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==Stately homes of England==
[[File:Longleat House.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|left|[[Longleat House]] was the first country house to open to the 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&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 ''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> It became the first property in what later was known as the stately home industry.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}]]
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}}
[[File:Blenheim Palace 2014.jpg|alt=Exterior of a large English Baroque palace fronted by lawns and gardens|thumb|500x500px|Blenheim Palace]]
In England, the terms "country house" and "stately home" are sometimes used vaguely and interchangeably; however, many country houses such as [[Ascott House|Ascott]] in Buckinghamshire were deliberately designed not to be stately, and to harmonise with the landscape, while some of the great houses such as [[Kedleston Hall]] and [[Holkham Hall]] were built as "power houses" to dominate the landscape, and were most certainly intended to be "stately" and impressive.<ref>Girouard, p.</ref> In his book ''Historic Houses: Conversations in Stately Homes'', the author and journalist [[Robert Harling (typographer)|Robert Harling]] documents nineteen "stately homes"; these range in size from the vast [[Blenheim Palace]] to the minuscule [[Ebberston Hall]], and in architecture from the Jacobean Renaissance of [[Hatfield House]] to the eccentricities of [[Sezincote]]. The book's collection of stately homes also includes [[King George IV of the United Kingdom|George IV's]] Brighton town palace, the [[Royal Pavilion]].<ref>Harling, p 1–16.</ref>
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== Evolution ==
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[[File:Forde Abbey 06.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|[[Forde Abbey]] in Dorset. Many country houses have evolved and been extended over several centuries. Here, the architecture runs from Medieval ecclesiastical to [[Palladian]] and on to [[Strawberry Hill Gothic]], while at sometime an attempt at unity has been made by the use of [[crenelation]].]]
The country houses of England have evolved over the last five hundred years. Before this time, larger houses were usually fortified, reflecting the position of their owners as [[Feudalism|feudal lords]], ''de facto'' overlords of their [[Manorialism|manors]]. The [[Tudor period]] of stability in the country saw the building of the first of the unfortified great houses. [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]'s [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] saw many former [[ecclesiastical]] properties granted to the King's favourites, who then converted them into private country houses. [[Woburn Abbey]], [[Forde Abbey]] and many other mansions with ''[[abbey]]'' or ''[[priory]]'' in their name became private houses during this period. Other terms used in the names of houses to describe their origin or importance include ''[[palace]]'', ''[[castle]]'', ''[[Court (royal)|court]]'', ''[[hall]]'', ''[[mansion]]'', ''park'', ''house'', ''[[Manor House|manor]]'', and ''[[Location (geography)|place]]''.
It was during the second half of the reign of [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]], and under her successor, [[James I of England|James I]], that the first architect-designed mansions, thought of today as epitomising the English country house, began to make their appearance. [[Burghley House]], [[Longleat|Longleat House]], and [[Hatfield House]] are among the best-known examples of the showy [[prodigy house]], often built with the intention of attracting the monarch to visit. By the reign of [[Charles I of England|Charles I]], [[Inigo Jones]] and his form of [[Palladianism]] had changed the face of English domestic architecture completely, with the use of turrets and towers as an architectural reference to the earlier castles and fortified houses completely disappearing. The Palladian style, in various forms, interrupted briefly by [[baroque]], was to predominate until the second half of the 18th century when, influenced by ancient Greek styles, it gradually evolved into the [[neoclassicism]] championed by such architects as [[Robert Adam]].
[[File:Brympton dEvercy 03.jpg|thumb|left|[[Brympton d'Evercy]] in Somerset evolved from the Medieval period; its provincial architects are long forgotten. Yet, [[Christopher Hussey (historian)|Christopher Hussey]] described it as "The most incomparable house in Britain, the one which created the greatest impression and summarises so exquisitely English country life qualities".<ref name="Country Life 1927">Country Life, Saturday, 7 May 1927.</ref>]]
Some of the best known of England's country houses were built by one architect at one particular time: [[Montacute House]], [[Chatsworth House]], and [[Blenheim Palace]] are examples. While the latter two are [[Duke|ducal]] [[palace]]s, Montacute, although built by a [[Master of the Rolls]] to Queen Elizabeth I, was occupied for the next 400 years by his descendants, who were gentry without a London [[townhouse]], rather than aristocracy. They finally ran out of funds in the early 20th century.
However, the vast majority of the lesser-known English country houses, often owned at different times by gentlemen and [[peerage|peers]], are an evolution of one or more styles with facades and wings in different styles in a mixture of high architecture, often as interpreted by a local architect or surveyor, and determined by practicality as much as by the whims of architectural taste. An example of this is [[Brympton d'Evercy]] in Somerset, a house of many periods that is unified architecturally by the continuing use of the same mellow, local [[Hamstone|Ham Hill stone]].
The fashionable [[William Kent]] redesigned [[Rousham House]] only to have it quickly and drastically altered to provide space for the owner's twelve children. [[Canons Ashby House|Canons Ashby]], home to poet [[John Dryden]]'s family, is another example of architectural evolution: a medieval farmhouse enlarged in the [[Tudor era]] around a courtyard, given grandiose plaster ceilings in the [[Stuart period]], and then having [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] façades added in the 18th century. The whole is a glorious mismatch of styles and fashions that seamlessly blend together. These could be called the true English country house. [[Wilton House]], one of England's grandest houses, is in a remarkably similar vein; although, while the Drydens, mere squires, at Canons Ashby employed a local architect, at Wilton the mighty [[Earls of Pembroke]] employed the finest architects of the day: first [[Hans Holbein the Younger|Holbein]], 150 years later Inigo Jones, and then Wyatt followed by Chambers. Each employed a different style of architecture, seemingly unaware of the design of the wing around the next corner. These varying "improvements", often criticised at the time, today are the qualities that make English country houses unique.
==Sizes and types==
{{quote|Wealthy and influential people, often bored with their formal duties, go to the country in order to get out of London, the ugliest and most uncomfortable city in the world; they invented the long week-end to stay away as long as possible. Their {{lang|fr|métier}} is politics; they talk politics; and they make politics, quite spontaneously.|[[John Gunther]], 1940<ref name="gunther1940">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.149663/2015.149663.Inside-Europe#page/n309/mode/2up | title=Inside Europe | publisher=Harper & Brothers | author=Gunther, John | author-link=John Gunther | location=New York | year=1940 | page=287}}</ref>}}
There are no written terms for distinguishing between vast country palaces and comparatively small country houses; the descriptive terms, which can include ''castle'', ''manor'' and ''court'', provide no firm clue and are often only used because of a historical connection with the site of such a building.<ref>The term palace is very seldom used in England at all, especially for a country house, and when it is used, it can be for a fairly small house such as [[Eltham Palace]] with former royal connections or a monumentally huge house such as [[Blenheim Palace]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}</ref> Therefore, for ease or explanation, Britain's country houses can be categorised according to the circumstances of their creation.
=== Power houses ===
[[File:Kedleston Hall 20080730-04.jpg|thumb|left|[[Kedleston Hall]] designed by [[Matthew Brettingham]] and [[Robert Adam]], one of the great power houses.]]
The [[great house]]s are the largest of the country houses; in truth palaces, built by the country's most powerful – these were designed to display their owners' power or ambitions to power.<ref>Girouard, p2-12.</ref> Really large unfortified or barely fortified houses began to take over from the traditional [[castle]]s of the crown and magnates during the Tudor period, with vast houses such as [[Hampton Court Palace]] and [[Burghley House]], and continued until the 18th century with houses such as [[Castle Howard]], [[Kedleston Hall]] and [[Holkham Hall]].<ref>Girouard, p. 2-12.</ref> Such building reached its zenith from the late 17th century until the mid-18th century; these houses were often completely built or rebuilt in their entirety by one eminent architect in the most fashionable architectural style of the day and often have a suite of Baroque state apartments, typically in [[Enfilade (architecture)|enfilade]], reserved for the most eminent guests, the entertainment of whom was of paramount importance in establishing and maintaining the power of the owner. The common denominator of this category of English country houses is that they were designed to be lived in with a certain degree of ceremony and pomp. It was not unusual for the family to have a small suite of rooms for withdrawing in privacy away from the multitude that lived in the household. These houses were always an alternative residence to a London house.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, for the highest echelons of English society, the country house served as a place for relaxing, hunting and running the country with one's equals at the end of the week, with some houses having their own [[Country House Theatres|theatre]] where performances were staged.
The country house, however, was not just an oasis of pleasure for a fortunate few; it was the centre of its own world, providing employment to hundreds of people in the vicinity of its [[estate (house)|estate]]. In previous eras, when state benefits were unheard of, those working on an estate were among the most fortunate, receiving secured employment and rent-free accommodation. At the summit of this category of people was the indoor staff of the country house. Unlike many of their contemporaries prior to the 20th century, they slept in proper beds, wore well-made adequate clothes and received three proper meals a day, plus a small wage. In an era when many still died from malnutrition or lack of medicine, the long working hours were a small price to pay.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}
As a result of the aristocratic habit of only marrying within the aristocracy, and whenever possible to a sole heiress, many owners of country houses owned several country mansions,<ref>Worsley, p. 10.</ref> and would visit each according to the season: [[Grouse]] shooting in [[Scotland]], [[pheasant]] shooting and [[fox hunting]] in England. The [[Earl of Rosebery]], for instance, had [[Dalmeny House]] in Scotland, [[Mentmore Towers]] in Buckinghamshire, and another house near [[Epsom]] just for the racing season.<ref>McKinstrey, p181.</ref> For many, this way of life, which began a steady decline in 1914, continued well into the 20th century, and for a very few continues to this day.
=== Minor country houses ===
In the second category of Britain's country houses are those that belonged to the squirearchy or [[landed gentry]]. These tend either to have evolved from medieval hall houses, with rooms added as required, or were purpose-built by relatively unknown local architects. Smaller, and far greater in number than the "power houses", these were still the epicentre of their own estate, but were often the only residence of their owner.
However, whether the owner of a "power house" or a small manor, the inhabitants of the English country house have become collectively referred to as the ruling class, because this is exactly what they did in varying degrees, whether by having high political influence and power in national government, or in the day-to-day running of their own localities or "county" in such offices as [[Lord Lieutenant|lord/deputy lieutenant]], [[magistrates]], or occasionally even clergy.<ref>Girouard, p2, describes a squire as "like a little king in his village.</ref>
The [[Closed circle of suspects#Country house mystery|Country house mystery]] was a popular genre of English detective fiction in the 1920s and 1930s; set in the residence of the [[Landed gentry|gentry]] and often involving a murder in a country house temporarily isolated by a snowstorm or similar with the suspects all at a weekend house party.
=== 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 Home counties]] and [[Bletchley Park]] (rebuilt in several styles, and famous for its code-breaking role in World War II).
== Decline ==
{{See also|Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain}}
[[File:TrenthamBalustrade.jpg|thumb|[[Trentham Gardens|Trentham]], [[Staffordshire]]. During the 20th century, thousands of country houses were demolished, their stone and fixtures sold. During this era, many fine architectural features were transported to the US.]]
The slow decline of the English country house coincided with the rise not just of taxation, but also of modern industry, along with the agricultural depression of the 1870s. By 1880, this had led some owners into financial shortfalls as they tried to balance maintenance of their estates with the income they provided. Some relied on funds from secondary sources such as banking and trade while others, like the severely impoverished [[Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough|Duke of Marlborough]], sought to marry American heiresses to save their country houses and lifestyles.<ref>Stuart, p. 135.</ref>
The ultimate demise began immediately following [[World War I]]. The members of the huge staff required to maintain large houses had either left to fight and never returned, departed to work in the munitions factories, or filled the void left by the fighting men in other workplaces. Of those who returned after the war, many left the countryside for better-paid jobs in towns. The final blow for many country houses came following [[World War II]]; having been requisitioned during the war, they were returned to the owners in poor repair. Many estate owners, having lost their heirs, if not in the immediately preceding war then in World War I, were now paying far higher rates of tax, and agricultural incomes had dropped. Thus, the solution for many was to hold [[English country house contents auctions|contents auctions]] and then demolish the house and sell its stone, [[fireplace]]s, and [[panelling]]. This is what happened to many of Britain's finest houses.
Despite this slow decline, so necessary was the country house for entertaining and prestige that in 1917 [[Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham|Viscount Lee of Fareham]] donated his country house [[Chequers]] to the nation for the use of a prime minister who might not possess one of his own. Chequers still fulfills that need today as do both [[Chevening House]] and [[Dorneywood]], donated for sole use of high-ranking ministers of the Crown.
== 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, museums and prisons, 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 as buildings of historic interest—and only the most faithful, most accurate, and most precise restoration and re-creation are permitted. Such work, however, is usually very expensive, although the system does ensure that everything is done correctly and authentically. The negative side is that many owners cannot afford the work, so a roof remains leaking for the sake of a cheap roof tile.
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 are retained for display in the building. This enables the former owners to offset tax, the payment of which would otherwise have necessitated the 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]] and a [[corporate entertainment]] venue. While many country houses are open to the public, they remain inhabited private houses, in some cases by the descendants of their original owners.
The lifestyles of those living and working in a country house in the early 20th century were recreated in a [[BBC]] television programme, ''[[The Edwardian Country House]]'', which was filmed at [[Manderston House]] in Scotland. Another particularly popular television programme that features the dynamics of life in country houses is ''[[Downton Abbey]]'', which aired on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[PBS]] in the [[United States]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/downton-abbey/|title=Downton Abbey on MASTERPIECE on PBS|website=[[PBS]]|access-date=29 October 2019|archive-date=26 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026091952/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/downton-abbey/|url-status=live}}</ref>
== See also ==
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* [[English country houses with changed use]]
* [[Estate houses in Scotland]]
* [[List of country houses in the United Kingdom]]
* [[List of National Trust properties in England]]
* [[List of English Heritage properties]]
* [[List of castles in England]]
* [[List of historic buildings of the United Kingdom]] – country house architectural periods and styles
* [[Historic house]]
* ''[[The Edwardian Country House]]'', a [[Channel 4]] series
* ''[[Downton Abbey]]''
* [[Manor house]]
* [[Prodigy house]]
* [[Roman villa]]
* [[British country house contents auctions]]
* [[Country house theatre]]
* [[Country house poem]]
* [[Treasure Houses of England]]
* ''[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]''
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==References==
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| first = Malcolm
| year = 1975
| title = The Making of the English Country House, 1500–1640
| location = London
| publisher = Architectural Press
| isbn = 0-85139-378-0
}}
* {{Cite book
| last = Girouard
| first = Mark
| author-link = Mark Girouard
| title = Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History
| location = New Haven
| publisher = Yale University Press
| year = 1978
| isbn = 0-300-02273-5
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/lifeinenglishcou0000giro
}} <small>Details the impact of social change on design.</small>
* {{cite book
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| first = Michael
| year = 2009
| title = The Victorian Country House
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| location = London
| isbn = 978-1-84513-457-0
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* {{cite book
| editor1-last = Kroll
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| others = Discussions with [[Robert Harling (typographer)|Robert Harling]]
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| year = 1969
| publisher = Condé Nast
| location = London
| isbn = 0-900303-05-0
}}
* {{Cite book
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| first = Lesley
| author-link = Lesley Lewis (art historian)
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| location = Stroud
| publisher = Sutton
| year = 1997
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}} <small>Gives much detail of how a smaller country house operated in the early 20th century.</small>
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| first = Candida
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| year = 1991
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* {{cite book
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* {{cite book
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| first = Tessa
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}}
==External links==
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* [http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk The National Trust – England, Wales, & Northern Ireland]
* [http://www.nts.org.uk The National Trust for Scotland]
* [http://www.english-heritage.org.uk English Heritage]
* [http://www.hha.org.uk Historic Houses Association]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080514000859/http://www.hudsonsguide.co.uk/ Hudson's Historic Houses and Gardens] – [[Norman Hudson|Hudson's]] list of 2,000 properties open to the public
* [http://www.dicamillocompanion.com The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses]
* [http://www.lostheritage.org.uk Lost Heritage – A Memorial to the Lost Country Houses of England]
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Stately_homes_of_England"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Stately homes of England</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Evolution"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Evolution</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Minor_country_houses"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Minor country houses</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Victorian_houses"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Victorian houses</span></a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Stately_homes_of_England">Stately homes of England</span></h2>
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<p>The term <b>stately home</b> 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 <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Hemans" title="Felicia Hemans">Felicia Hemans</a>, "The Homes of England", originally published in <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwood%27s_Magazine" title="Blackwood's Magazine">Blackwood's Magazine</a></i> in 1827. In the 20th century, the term was later popularised in a song by <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> and in modern usage it often implies a country house that is open to visitors at least some of the time.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>
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<p>In England, the terms "country house" and "stately home" are sometimes used vaguely and interchangeably; however, many country houses such as <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascott_House" title="Ascott House">Ascott</a> in Buckinghamshire were deliberately designed not to be stately, and to harmonise with the landscape, while some of the great houses such as <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedleston_Hall" title="Kedleston Hall">Kedleston Hall</a> and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holkham_Hall" title="Holkham Hall">Holkham Hall</a> were built as "power houses" to dominate the landscape, and were most certainly intended to be "stately" and impressive.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> In his book <i>Historic Houses: Conversations in Stately Homes</i>, the author and journalist <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Harling_(typographer)" title="Robert Harling (typographer)">Robert Harling</a> documents nineteen "stately homes"; these range in size from the vast <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blenheim_Palace" title="Blenheim Palace">Blenheim Palace</a> to the minuscule <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebberston_Hall" title="Ebberston Hall">Ebberston Hall</a>, and in architecture from the Jacobean Renaissance of <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_House" title="Hatfield House">Hatfield House</a> to the eccentricities of <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sezincote" class="mw-redirect" title="Sezincote">Sezincote</a>. The book's collection of stately homes also includes <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="King George IV of the United Kingdom">George IV's</a> Brighton town palace, the <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Pavilion" title="Royal Pavilion">Royal Pavilion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Evolution">Evolution</span></h2>
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<p>The country houses of England have evolved over the last five hundred years. Before this time, larger houses were usually fortified, reflecting the position of their owners as <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">feudal lords</a>, <i>de facto</i> overlords of their <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">manors</a>. The <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_period" title="Tudor period">Tudor period</a> of stability in the country saw the building of the first of the unfortified great houses. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a>'s <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissolution of the Monasteries">Dissolution of the Monasteries</a> saw many former <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical" title="Ecclesiastical">ecclesiastical</a> properties granted to the King's favourites, who then converted them into private country houses. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woburn_Abbey" title="Woburn Abbey">Woburn Abbey</a>, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forde_Abbey" title="Forde Abbey">Forde Abbey</a> and many other mansions with <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey" title="Abbey">abbey</a></i> or <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory" title="Priory">priory</a></i> in their name became private houses during this period. Other terms used in the names of houses to describe their origin or importance include <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace" title="Palace">palace</a></i>, <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle" title="Castle">castle</a></i>, <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_(royal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Court (royal)">court</a></i>, <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall" title="Hall">hall</a></i>, <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansion" title="Mansion">mansion</a></i>, <i>park</i>, <i>house</i>, <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Manor House">manor</a></i>, and <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_(geography)" class="mw-redirect" title="Location (geography)">place</a></i>.
</p><p>It was during the second half of the reign of <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I</a>, and under her successor, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="James I of England">James I</a>, that the first architect-designed mansions, thought of today as epitomising the English country house, began to make their appearance. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burghley_House" title="Burghley House">Burghley House</a>, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longleat" title="Longleat">Longleat House</a>, and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_House" title="Hatfield House">Hatfield House</a> are among the best-known examples of the showy <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_house" title="Prodigy house">prodigy house</a>, often built with the intention of attracting the monarch to visit. By the reign of <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I</a>, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inigo_Jones" title="Inigo Jones">Inigo Jones</a> and his form of <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladianism" class="mw-redirect" title="Palladianism">Palladianism</a> had changed the face of English domestic architecture completely, with the use of turrets and towers as an architectural reference to the earlier castles and fortified houses completely disappearing. The Palladian style, in various forms, interrupted briefly by <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque" title="Baroque">baroque</a>, was to predominate until the second half of the 18th century when, influenced by ancient Greek styles, it gradually evolved into the <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassicism" title="Neoclassicism">neoclassicism</a> championed by such architects as <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Adam" title="Robert Adam">Robert Adam</a>.
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<div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brympton_dEvercy_03.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Brympton_dEvercy_03.jpg/220px-Brympton_dEvercy_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="651" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brympton_dEvercy_03.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brympton_d%27Evercy" title="Brympton d'Evercy">Brympton d'Evercy</a> in Somerset evolved from the Medieval period; its provincial architects are long forgotten. Yet, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hussey_(historian)" title="Christopher Hussey (historian)">Christopher Hussey</a> described it as "The most incomparable house in Britain, the one which created the greatest impression and summarises so exquisitely English country life qualities".<sup id="cite_ref-Country_Life_1927_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Country_Life_1927-6">[6]</a></sup></div></div></div>
<p>Some of the best known of England's country houses were built by one architect at one particular time: <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montacute_House" title="Montacute House">Montacute House</a>, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth_House" title="Chatsworth House">Chatsworth House</a>, and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blenheim_Palace" title="Blenheim Palace">Blenheim Palace</a> are examples. While the latter two are <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke" title="Duke">ducal</a> <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace" title="Palace">palaces</a>, Montacute, although built by a <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_Rolls" title="Master of the Rolls">Master of the Rolls</a> to Queen Elizabeth I, was occupied for the next 400 years by his descendants, who were gentry without a London <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse" title="Townhouse">townhouse</a>, rather than aristocracy. They finally ran out of funds in the early 20th century.
</p><p>However, the vast majority of the lesser-known English country houses, often owned at different times by gentlemen and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peerage" title="Peerage">peers</a>, are an evolution of one or more styles with facades and wings in different styles in a mixture of high architecture, often as interpreted by a local architect or surveyor, and determined by practicality as much as by the whims of architectural taste. An example of this is <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brympton_d%27Evercy" title="Brympton d'Evercy">Brympton d'Evercy</a> in Somerset, a house of many periods that is unified architecturally by the continuing use of the same mellow, local <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamstone" title="Hamstone">Ham Hill stone</a>.
</p><p>The fashionable <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kent" title="William Kent">William Kent</a> redesigned <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousham_House" title="Rousham House">Rousham House</a> only to have it quickly and drastically altered to provide space for the owner's twelve children. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_Ashby_House" title="Canons Ashby House">Canons Ashby</a>, home to poet <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a>'s family, is another example of architectural evolution: a medieval farmhouse enlarged in the <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Tudor era">Tudor era</a> around a courtyard, given grandiose plaster ceilings in the <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_period" title="Stuart period">Stuart period</a>, and then having <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_architecture" title="Georgian architecture">Georgian</a> façades added in the 18th century. The whole is a glorious mismatch of styles and fashions that seamlessly blend together. These could be called the true English country house. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilton_House" title="Wilton House">Wilton House</a>, one of England's grandest houses, is in a remarkably similar vein; although, while the Drydens, mere squires, at Canons Ashby employed a local architect, at Wilton the mighty <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earls_of_Pembroke" class="mw-redirect" title="Earls of Pembroke">Earls of Pembroke</a> employed the finest architects of the day: first <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger" title="Hans Holbein the Younger">Holbein</a>, 150 years later Inigo Jones, and then Wyatt followed by Chambers. Each employed a different style of architecture, seemingly unaware of the design of the wing around the next corner. These varying "improvements", often criticised at the time, today are the qualities that make English country houses unique.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Sizes_and_types">Sizes and types</span></h2>
<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r996844942">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Wealthy and influential people, often bored with their formal duties, go to the country in order to get out of London, the ugliest and most uncomfortable city in the world; they invented the long week-end to stay away as long as possible. Their <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">métier</i></span> is politics; they talk politics; and they make politics, quite spontaneously.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gunther" title="John Gunther">John Gunther</a>, 1940<sup id="cite_ref-gunther1940_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gunther1940-7">[7]</a></sup></cite></div></blockquote>
<p>There are no written terms for distinguishing between vast country palaces and comparatively small country houses; the descriptive terms, which can include <i>castle</i>, <i>manor</i> and <i>court</i>, provide no firm clue and are often only used because of a historical connection with the site of such a building.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> Therefore, for ease or explanation, Britain's country houses can be categorised according to the circumstances of their creation.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Power_houses">Power houses</span></h3>
<div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kedleston_Hall_20080730-04.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Kedleston_Hall_20080730-04.jpg/220px-Kedleston_Hall_20080730-04.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="4284" data-file-height="2756" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kedleston_Hall_20080730-04.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedleston_Hall" title="Kedleston Hall">Kedleston Hall</a> designed by <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Brettingham" title="Matthew Brettingham">Matthew Brettingham</a> and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Adam" title="Robert Adam">Robert Adam</a>, one of the great power houses.</div></div></div>
<p>The <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_house" title="Great house">great houses</a> are the largest of the country houses; in truth palaces, built by the country's most powerful – these were designed to display their owners' power or ambitions to power.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> Really large unfortified or barely fortified houses began to take over from the traditional <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle" title="Castle">castles</a> of the crown and magnates during the Tudor period, with vast houses such as <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Court_Palace" title="Hampton Court Palace">Hampton Court Palace</a> and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burghley_House" title="Burghley House">Burghley House</a>, and continued until the 18th century with houses such as <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Howard" title="Castle Howard">Castle Howard</a>, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedleston_Hall" title="Kedleston Hall">Kedleston Hall</a> and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holkham_Hall" title="Holkham Hall">Holkham Hall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> Such building reached its zenith from the late 17th century until the mid-18th century; these houses were often completely built or rebuilt in their entirety by one eminent architect in the most fashionable architectural style of the day and often have a suite of Baroque state apartments, typically in <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfilade_(architecture)" title="Enfilade (architecture)">enfilade</a>, reserved for the most eminent guests, the entertainment of whom was of paramount importance in establishing and maintaining the power of the owner. The common denominator of this category of English country houses is that they were designed to be lived in with a certain degree of ceremony and pomp. It was not unusual for the family to have a small suite of rooms for withdrawing in privacy away from the multitude that lived in the household. These houses were always an alternative residence to a London house.
</p><p>During the 18th and 19th centuries, for the highest echelons of English society, the country house served as a place for relaxing, hunting and running the country with one's equals at the end of the week, with some houses having their own <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_House_Theatres" class="mw-redirect" title="Country House Theatres">theatre</a> where performances were staged.
</p><p>The country house, however, was not just an oasis of pleasure for a fortunate few; it was the centre of its own world, providing employment to hundreds of people in the vicinity of its <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_(house)" class="mw-redirect" title="Estate (house)">estate</a>. In previous eras, when state benefits were unheard of, those working on an estate were among the most fortunate, receiving secured employment and rent-free accommodation. At the summit of this category of people was the indoor staff of the country house. Unlike many of their contemporaries prior to the 20th century, they slept in proper beds, wore well-made adequate clothes and received three proper meals a day, plus a small wage. In an era when many still died from malnutrition or lack of medicine, the long working hours were a small price to pay.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>
</p><p>As a result of the aristocratic habit of only marrying within the aristocracy, and whenever possible to a sole heiress, many owners of country houses owned several country mansions,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup> and would visit each according to the season: <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouse" title="Grouse">Grouse</a> shooting in <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant" title="Pheasant">pheasant</a> shooting and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_hunting" title="Fox hunting">fox hunting</a> in England. The <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Rosebery" title="Earl of Rosebery">Earl of Rosebery</a>, for instance, had <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmeny_House" title="Dalmeny House">Dalmeny House</a> in Scotland, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentmore_Towers" title="Mentmore Towers">Mentmore Towers</a> in Buckinghamshire, and another house near <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsom" title="Epsom">Epsom</a> just for the racing season.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> For many, this way of life, which began a steady decline in 1914, continued well into the 20th century, and for a very few continues to this day.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Minor_country_houses">Minor country houses</span></h3>
<p>In the second category of Britain's country houses are those that belonged to the squirearchy or <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landed_gentry" title="Landed gentry">landed gentry</a>. These tend either to have evolved from medieval hall houses, with rooms added as required, or were purpose-built by relatively unknown local architects. Smaller, and far greater in number than the "power houses", these were still the epicentre of their own estate, but were often the only residence of their owner.
</p><p>However, whether the owner of a "power house" or a small manor, the inhabitants of the English country house have become collectively referred to as the ruling class, because this is exactly what they did in varying degrees, whether by having high political influence and power in national government, or in the day-to-day running of their own localities or "county" in such offices as <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Lieutenant">lord/deputy lieutenant</a>, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magistrates" class="mw-redirect" title="Magistrates">magistrates</a>, or occasionally even clergy.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup>
</p><p>The <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_circle_of_suspects#Country_house_mystery" title="Closed circle of suspects">Country house mystery</a> was a popular genre of English detective fiction in the 1920s and 1930s; set in the residence of the <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landed_gentry" title="Landed gentry">gentry</a> and often involving a murder in a country house temporarily isolated by a snowstorm or similar with the suspects all at a weekend house party.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Victorian_houses">Victorian houses</span></h3>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WaddesdonManor.JPG" class="image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/WaddesdonManor.JPG/220px-WaddesdonManor.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WaddesdonManor.JPG" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waddesdon_Manor" title="Waddesdon Manor">Waddesdon Manor</a>, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckinghamshire" title="Buckinghamshire">Buckinghamshire</a>. During the Victorian era, vast country houses were built in a variety of styles by wealthy industrialists and bankers.</div></div></div>
<p>Following the <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a> 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 <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revivalism_(architecture)" title="Revivalism (architecture)">revivalist</a> architectural styles popular throughout the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-Hall,_p25_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hall,_p25-14">[14]</a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-Hall,_p25_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hall,_p25-14">[14]</a></sup> This new wave of country house building is exemplified by the <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_properties_in_the_Home_counties" class="mw-redirect" title="Rothschild properties in the Home counties">Rothschild properties in the Home counties</a> and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park" title="Bletchley Park">Bletchley Park</a> (rebuilt in several styles, and famous for its code-breaking role in World War II).
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Decline">Decline</span></h2>
<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1033289096">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_in_20th-century_Britain" title="Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain">Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain</a></div>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TrenthamBalustrade.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/TrenthamBalustrade.jpg/220px-TrenthamBalustrade.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="1335" data-file-height="670" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TrenthamBalustrade.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trentham_Gardens" class="mw-redirect" title="Trentham Gardens">Trentham</a>, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a>. During the 20th century, thousands of country houses were demolished, their stone and fixtures sold. During this era, many fine architectural features were transported to the US.</div></div></div>
<p>The slow decline of the English country house coincided with the rise not just of taxation, but also of modern industry, along with the agricultural depression of the 1870s. By 1880, this had led some owners into financial shortfalls as they tried to balance maintenance of their estates with the income they provided. Some relied on funds from secondary sources such as banking and trade while others, like the severely impoverished <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spencer-Churchill,_9th_Duke_of_Marlborough" title="Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough">Duke of Marlborough</a>, sought to marry American heiresses to save their country houses and lifestyles.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup>
</p><p>The ultimate demise began immediately following <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>. The members of the huge staff required to maintain large houses had either left to fight and never returned, departed to work in the munitions factories, or filled the void left by the fighting men in other workplaces. Of those who returned after the war, many left the countryside for better-paid jobs in towns. The final blow for many country houses came following <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>; having been requisitioned during the war, they were returned to the owners in poor repair. Many estate owners, having lost their heirs, if not in the immediately preceding war then in World War I, were now paying far higher rates of tax, and agricultural incomes had dropped. Thus, the solution for many was to hold <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_country_house_contents_auctions" class="mw-redirect" title="English country house contents auctions">contents auctions</a> and then demolish the house and sell its stone, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireplace" title="Fireplace">fireplaces</a>, and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panelling" title="Panelling">panelling</a>. This is what happened to many of Britain's finest houses.
</p><p>Despite this slow decline, so necessary was the country house for entertaining and prestige that in 1917 <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lee,_1st_Viscount_Lee_of_Fareham" title="Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham">Viscount Lee of Fareham</a> donated his country house <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chequers" title="Chequers">Chequers</a> to the nation for the use of a prime minister who might not possess one of his own. Chequers still fulfills that need today as do both <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevening_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Chevening House">Chevening House</a> and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorneywood" title="Dorneywood">Dorneywood</a>, donated for sole use of high-ranking ministers of the Crown.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Today">Today</span></h2>
<p>Today, many country houses have become hotels,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup> schools, hospitals, museums and prisons, while others have survived as conserved ruins, but from the early 20th century until the early 1970s, <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_in_20th-century_Britain" title="Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain">hundreds of country houses were demolished</a>. Houses that survived destruction are now mostly Grade I or II listed as buildings of historic interest—and only the most faithful, most accurate, and most precise restoration and re-creation are permitted. Such work, however, is usually very expensive, although the system does ensure that everything is done correctly and authentically. The negative side is that many owners cannot afford the work, so a roof remains leaking for the sake of a cheap roof tile.
</p><p>Although the ownership or management of some houses has been transferred to a <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_law" title="Trust law">private trust</a>, most notably at <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth_House" title="Chatsworth House">Chatsworth</a>, other houses have transferred art works and furnishings under the <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_in_Lieu" class="mw-redirect" title="Acceptance in Lieu">Acceptance in Lieu</a> scheme to ownership by various national or local museums, but are retained for display in the building. This enables the former owners to offset tax, the payment of which would otherwise have necessitated the sale of the art works. For example, tapestries and furniture at <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Hall" title="Houghton Hall">Houghton Hall</a> are now owned by the <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum" title="Victoria and Albert Museum">Victoria and Albert Museum</a>. In addition, increasing numbers of country houses hold licences for weddings and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_ceremony" title="Civil ceremony">civil ceremonies</a>. Another source of income is to use the house as a venue for parties,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> a <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filming_location" title="Filming location">film location</a> and a <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_entertainment" title="Corporate entertainment">corporate entertainment</a> venue. While many country houses are open to the public, they remain inhabited private houses, in some cases by the descendants of their original owners.
</p><p>The lifestyles of those living and working in a country house in the early 20th century were recreated in a <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> television programme, <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edwardian_Country_House" title="The Edwardian Country House">The Edwardian Country House</a></i>, which was filmed at <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manderston_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Manderston House">Manderston House</a> in Scotland. Another particularly popular television programme that features the dynamics of life in country houses is <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey" title="Downton Abbey">Downton Abbey</a></i>, which aired on <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> in the <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> and <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a> in the <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span></h2>
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<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_houses_in_Scotland" title="Estate houses in Scotland">Estate houses in Scotland</a></li>
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<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Trust_properties_in_England" title="List of National Trust properties in England">List of National Trust properties in England</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_Heritage_properties" title="List of English Heritage properties">List of English Heritage properties</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_castles_in_England" title="List of castles in England">List of castles in England</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historic_buildings_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of historic buildings of the United Kingdom">List of historic buildings of the United Kingdom</a> – country house architectural periods and styles</li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_house" title="Historic house">Historic house</a></li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edwardian_Country_House" title="The Edwardian Country House">The Edwardian Country House</a></i>, a <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a> series</li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey" title="Downton Abbey">Downton Abbey</a></i></li>
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<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_house" title="Prodigy house">Prodigy house</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_villa" title="Roman villa">Roman villa</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_country_house_contents_auctions" title="British country house contents auctions">British country house contents auctions</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_house_theatre" title="Country house theatre">Country house theatre</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_house_poem" title="Country house poem">Country house poem</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Houses_of_England" title="Treasure Houses of England">Treasure Houses of England</a></li>
<li><i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Life_(magazine)" title="Country Life (magazine)">Country Life</a></i></li></ul>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h2>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article737168.ece">The lions and loins of Longleat</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110629121155/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article737168.ece">Archived</a> 29 June 2011 at the <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunday_Times" title="The Sunday Times">The Sunday Times</a></i> Retrieved 18 February 2011</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The Stately Homes of England" by Noël Coward (1938) was featured in his musical <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operette_(musical)" title="Operette (musical)">"Operette"</a>, which premiered in the same year.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Girouard, p.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harling, p 1–16.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Country_Life_1927-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Country_Life_1927_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Country Life, Saturday, 7 May 1927.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The term palace is very seldom used in England at all, especially for a country house, and when it is used, it can be for a fairly small house such as <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltham_Palace" title="Eltham Palace">Eltham Palace</a> with former royal connections or a monumentally huge house such as <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blenheim_Palace" title="Blenheim Palace">Blenheim Palace</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span>
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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Girouard, p2-12.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Girouard, p. 2-12.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Worsley, p. 10.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">McKinstrey, p181.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Girouard, p2, describes a squire as "like a little king in his village.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Hall,_p25-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hall,_p25_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hall,_p25_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hall, p25.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stuart, p. 135.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1067248974"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/downton-abbey/">"Downton Abbey on MASTERPIECE on PBS"</a>. <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191026091952/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/downton-abbey/">Archived</a> from the original on 26 October 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 October</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=PBS&rft.atitle=Downton+Abbey+on+MASTERPIECE+on+PBS&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Frp.liu233w.com%3A443%2Fhttps%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwgbh%2Fmasterpiece%2Fshows%2Fdownton-abbey%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1067248974"/><cite id="CITEREFGirouard1978" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Girouard" title="Mark Girouard">Girouard, Mark</a> (1978). <span class="cs1-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lifeinenglishcou0000giro"><i>Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History</i></a></span>. New Haven: Yale University Press. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-02273-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-02273-5"><bdi>0-300-02273-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Life+in+the+English+Country+House%3A+A+Social+and+Architectural+History&rft.place=New+Haven&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&rft.date=1978&rft.isbn=0-300-02273-5&rft.aulast=Girouard&rft.aufirst=Mark&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Frp.liu233w.com%3A443%2Fhttps%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Flifeinenglishcou0000giro&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span> <small>Details the impact of social change on design.</small></li>
<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1067248974"/><cite id="CITEREFHall2009" class="citation book cs1">Hall, Michael (2009). <i>The Victorian Country House</i>. London: Aurum Press Ltd. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84513-457-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84513-457-0"><bdi>978-1-84513-457-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Victorian+Country+House&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Aurum+Press+Ltd&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-1-84513-457-0&rft.aulast=Hall&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></li>
<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1067248974"/><cite id="CITEREFKroll1969" class="citation book cs1">Kroll, Alexander, ed. (1969). <i>Historic Houses: Conversations in Stately Homes</i>. Discussions with <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Harling_(typographer)" title="Robert Harling (typographer)">Robert Harling</a>. London: Condé Nast. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-900303-05-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-900303-05-0"><bdi>0-900303-05-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Historic+Houses%3A+Conversations+in+Stately+Homes&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Cond%C3%A9+Nast&rft.date=1969&rft.isbn=0-900303-05-0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></li>
<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1067248974"/><cite id="CITEREFLewis1997" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Lewis_(art_historian)" title="Lesley Lewis (art historian)">Lewis, Lesley</a> (1997). <i>The Private Life of a Country House</i>. Stroud: Sutton. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7509-1678-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-7509-1678-8"><bdi>0-7509-1678-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Private+Life+of+a+Country+House&rft.place=Stroud&rft.pub=Sutton&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=0-7509-1678-8&rft.aulast=Lewis&rft.aufirst=Lesley&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span> <small>Gives much detail of how a smaller country house operated in the early 20th century.</small></li>
<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1067248974"/><cite id="CITEREFLycett_Green1991" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_Lycett_Green" title="Candida Lycett Green">Lycett Green, Candida</a> (1991). <i>The Perfect English Country House</i>. London: Pavilion Books ltd. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85145-551-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-85145-551-5"><bdi>1-85145-551-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Perfect+English+Country+House&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Pavilion+Books+ltd&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=1-85145-551-5&rft.aulast=Lycett+Green&rft.aufirst=Candida&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></li>
<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1067248974"/><cite id="CITEREFMcKinstry2005" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_McKinstry" title="Leo McKinstry">McKinstry, Leo</a> (2005). <i>Rosebery: A Statesman in Turmoil</i>. London: John Murray. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7195-6586-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-7195-6586-3"><bdi>0-7195-6586-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rosebery%3A+A+Statesman+in+Turmoil&rft.place=London&rft.pub=John+Murray&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-7195-6586-3&rft.aulast=McKinstry&rft.aufirst=Leo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></li>
<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1067248974"/><cite id="CITEREFMurdoch2006" class="citation book cs1">Murdoch, Tessa (2006). <i><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Households" title="Noble Households">Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses</a>. A Tribute to <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cornforth_(historian)" title="John Cornforth (historian)">John Cornforth</a></i>. Cambridge: <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adamson_(publisher)" title="John Adamson (publisher)">John Adamson</a>. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9524322-5-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9524322-5-8"><bdi>978-0-9524322-5-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Noble+Households%3A+Eighteenth-Century+Inventories+of+Great+English+Houses.+A+Tribute+to+John+Cornforth&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pub=John+Adamson&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-9524322-5-8&rft.aulast=Murdoch&rft.aufirst=Tessa&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></li>
<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1067248974"/><cite id="CITEREFStuart2005" class="citation book cs1">Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie (2005). <span class="cs1-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780060938253"><i>Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and Mother in the Gilded Age</i></a></span>. New York: Harper Perennial. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-093825-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-093825-3"><bdi>978-0-06-093825-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Consuelo+and+Alva+Vanderbilt%3A+The+Story+of+a+Daughter+and+Mother+in+the+Gilded+Age&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Harper+Perennial&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-06-093825-3&rft.aulast=Stuart&rft.aufirst=Amanda+Mackenzie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Frp.liu233w.com%3A443%2Fhttps%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fisbn_9780060938253&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></li>
<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1067248974"/><cite id="CITEREFWorsley2002" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Worsley" title="Giles Worsley">Worsley, Giles</a> (2002). <i>England's Lost Houses</i>. London: Aurum Press. <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85410-820-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-85410-820-4"><bdi>1-85410-820-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=England%27s+Lost+Houses&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Aurum+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=1-85410-820-4&rft.aulast=Worsley&rft.aufirst=Giles&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul>
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<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxo-Norman#Architecture" title="Saxo-Norman">Saxo-Norman</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_architecture" title="Norman architecture">Norman</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Gothic_architecture" title="English Gothic architecture">English Gothic</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_architecture" title="Tudor architecture">Tudor</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_architecture" title="Elizabethan architecture">Elizabethan</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobean_architecture" title="Jacobean architecture">Jacobean</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Baroque" title="English Baroque">English Baroque</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne_style_architecture" title="Queen Anne style architecture">Queen Anne</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_architecture" title="Georgian architecture">Georgian</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Hill_House" title="Strawberry Hill House">Strawberry Hill Gothic</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_architecture" title="Victorian architecture">Victorian</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobethan" title="Jacobethan">Jacobethan</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardian_architecture" title="Edwardian architecture">Edwardian</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Byzantine" title="Bristol Byzantine">Bristol Byzantine</a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_castles_in_England" title="List of castles in England">Castles</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monastic_houses_in_England" title="List of monastic houses in England">Abbeys and priories</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_the_medieval_cathedrals_of_England" title="Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England">Medieval cathedrals</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_cathedrals_in_Great_Britain" title="List of former cathedrals in Great Britain">Former cathedrals</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_villas_in_England" title="List of Roman villas in England">Roman villas</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_houses_in_the_United_Kingdom#England" title="List of country houses in the United Kingdom">Historic houses</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_house" title="Hall house">Hall houses</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_Renaissance_theatres" title="List of English Renaissance theatres">Renaissance theatres</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_England" title="Listed buildings in England">Listed buildings</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_England" title="List of museums in England">Museums</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_church_monuments" title="English church monuments">Church monuments</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Trust_properties_in_England" title="List of National Trust properties in England">National Trust properties</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_windmills_in_England" title="List of windmills in England">Windmills</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_temples_in_England" title="List of Hindu temples in England">Hindu temples</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_in_England" title="List of stadiums in England">Stadiums</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lighthouses_in_England" title="List of lighthouses in England">Lighthouses</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Birmingham" title="Architecture of Birmingham">Birmingham</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Liverpool" title="Architecture of Liverpool">Liverpool</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Manchester" title="Architecture of Manchester">Manchester</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buildings_and_architecture_of_Bath" title="Buildings and architecture of Bath">Bath</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buildings_and_architecture_of_Bristol" title="Buildings and architecture of Bristol">Bristol</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buildings_and_architecture_of_Brighton_and_Hove" title="Buildings and architecture of Brighton and Hove">Brighton and Hove</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerbeam_roof" title="Hammerbeam roof">Hammerbeam roof</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_vault" title="Fan vault">Fan vault</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almshouse" title="Almshouse">Almshouse</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastle_house" title="Bastle house">Bastle house</a></li>
<li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Country house</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oast_house" title="Oast house">Oast house</a> <a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowl_(oast)" title="Cowl (oast)">(cowl)</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealden_hall_house" title="Wealden hall house">Wealden hall house</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmoor_longhouse" title="Dartmoor longhouse">Dartmoor longhouse</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_towers" title="Somerset towers">Somerset towers</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_stone" title="Bath stone">Bath stone</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_stone" title="Portland stone">Portland stone</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushwork" title="Flushwork">Flushwork</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_landscape_garden" title="English landscape garden">English landscape garden</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruck" title="Cruck">Cruck framing</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_house" title="Victorian house">Victorian</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardian_houses" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwardian houses">Edwardian</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Glasgow" title="Housing in Glasgow">Glasgow</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_housing_in_Liverpool" title="History of housing in Liverpool">Liverpool</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordability_of_housing_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Affordability of housing in the United Kingdom">Affordability</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_British_housing" title="Energy efficiency in British housing">Energy efficiency</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Homelessness in the United Kingdom">Homelessness</a>
<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_Act_2002" title="Homelessness Act 2002">Act 2002</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeping_(UK_housing_term)" title="Gatekeeping (UK housing term)">Gatekeeping</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_Reduction_Bill_2016%E2%80%9317" title="Homelessness Reduction Bill 2016–17">Reduction Bill 2016–17</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homes_England" title="Homes England">Homes England</a>
<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Corporation" title="Housing Corporation">Housing Corporation</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_State_for_Housing" title="Minister of State for Housing">Minister of State for Housing</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Public housing in the United Kingdom">Public Housing</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Buy" title="Right to Buy">Right to Buy</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum_clearance_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Slum clearance in the United Kingdom">Slum clearance</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-back_house" title="Back-to-back house">Back-to-back</a>
<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Back_to_Backs" title="Birmingham Back to Backs">Birmingham Back to Backs</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_house" title="Boot house">Boot</a></li>
<li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">English country</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_house" title="Hall house">Hall</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oast_house" title="Oast house">Oast</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabs_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prefabs in the United Kingdom">Prefabricated</a>
<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airey_house" title="Airey house">Airey</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atholl_steel_house" title="Atholl steel house">Atholl steel</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reema_construction" title="Reema construction">Reema construction</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimpey_no-fines_house" title="Wimpey no-fines house">Wimpey no-fines</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_houses_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Terraced houses in the United Kingdom">Terraced</a>
<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byelaw_terraced_house" title="Byelaw terraced house">Byelaw</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-regulation_terraced_houses_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Pre-regulation terraced houses in the United Kingdom">Pre-regulation</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-up_two-down" title="Two-up two-down">Two-up two-down</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_blocks_in_Great_Britain" title="Tower blocks in Great Britain">Tower blocks</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse_(Great_Britain)" title="Townhouse (Great Britain)">Townhouse</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weavers%27_cottage" title="Weavers' cottage">Weavers' cottage</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealden_hall_house" title="Wealden hall house">Wealden hall</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Housing_Act_1874&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Housing Act 1874 (page does not exist)">1874</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_(Financial_Provisions)_Act_1924" title="Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924">1924</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_1930" title="Housing Act 1930">1930</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_1933" title="Housing Act 1933">1933</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_1935" title="Housing Act 1935">1935</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Housing_Act_1936&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Housing Act 1936 (page does not exist)">1936</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_(Temporary_Accommodation)_Act_1944" title="Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944">1944</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_1949" title="Housing Act 1949">1949</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Housing_Act_1957&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Housing Act 1957 (page does not exist)">1957</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Housing_Act_1961&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Housing Act 1961 (page does not exist)">1961</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_1969" title="Housing Act 1969">1969</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_1980" title="Housing Act 1980">1980</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_1985" title="Housing Act 1985">1985</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_1988" title="Housing Act 1988">1988</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_1996" title="Housing Act 1996">1996</a>
<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Grants,_Construction_and_Regeneration_Act_1996" title="Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996">Grants, Construction and Regeneration</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_2004" title="Housing Act 2004">2004</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_and_Regeneration_Act_2008" title="Housing and Regeneration Act 2008">2008</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing,_Town_Planning,_%26c._Act_1909" title="Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1909">1909</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing,_Town_Planning,_%26c._Act_1919" title="Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919">1919</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_and_Planning_Act_1986" title="Housing and Planning Act 1986">1986</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_and_Planning_Act_2016" title="Housing and Planning Act 2016">2016</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_of_the_Working_Classes_Act_1885" title="Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885">1885</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_of_the_Working_Classes_Act_1890" title="Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890">1890</a></li>
<li><a href="/https/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_of_the_Working_Classes_Act_1900" title="Housing of the Working Classes Act 1900">1900</a></li></ul>
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