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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Country_House_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Country House (disambiguation)">Country House (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Stately home" redirects here. For the television episode, see <a href="/wiki/Stately_Home_(Keeping_Up_Appearances)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stately Home (Keeping Up Appearances)">"Stately Home" (<i>Keeping Up Appearances</i>)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Belton_House_South_Elevation.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Belton_House_South_Elevation.jpg/310px-Belton_House_South_Elevation.jpg" decoding="async" width="310" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Belton_House_South_Elevation.jpg/465px-Belton_House_South_Elevation.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Belton_House_South_Elevation.jpg/620px-Belton_House_South_Elevation.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3108" data-file-height="1943" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Belton_House" title="Belton House">Belton House</a> is an English country house in <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>An <b>English country house</b> is a large house or <a href="/wiki/Mansion" title="Mansion">mansion</a> in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a <a href="/wiki/Townhouse_(Great_Britain)" title="Townhouse (Great Britain)">town house</a>. 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 <a href="/wiki/Landed_gentry" title="Landed gentry">landed gentry</a> who dominated rural Britain until the <a href="/wiki/Reform_Act_1832" title="Reform Act 1832">Reform Act 1832</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frequently, the formal business of the <a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England" title="Historic counties of England">counties</a> was transacted in these country houses, having functional antecedents in <a href="/wiki/Manor_houses" class="mw-redirect" title="Manor houses">manor houses</a>. </p><p>With large numbers of indoor and outdoor staff, country houses were important as places of employment for many rural communities. In turn, until the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression_of_British_Agriculture" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Depression of British Agriculture">agricultural depressions of the 1870s</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_in_20th-century_Britain" title="Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain">demolition of hundreds of houses</a>; those that remained had to adapt to survive. </p><p>While a <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau" title="Château">château</a> or a <i><a href="/wiki/Schloss" title="Schloss">Schloss</a></i> can be a fortified or unfortified building, a country house, similar to an <i><a href="/wiki/Ansitz" title="Ansitz">Ansitz</a></i>, is usually unfortified. If fortified, it is called a castle, but not all buildings with the name "castle" are fortified (for example <a href="/wiki/Highclere_Castle" title="Highclere Castle">Highclere Castle</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a>). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stately_homes_of_England">Stately homes of England</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=English_country_house&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Stately homes of England"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Longleat_House.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Longleat_House.jpg/220px-Longleat_House.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Longleat_House.jpg/330px-Longleat_House.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Longleat_House.jpg/440px-Longleat_House.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2522" data-file-height="1917" /></a><figcaption>In the 20th century <a href="/wiki/Longleat_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Longleat House">Longleat House</a> was the first country house to open to the paying public, and also claims the first <a href="/wiki/Safari_park" title="Safari park">safari park</a> outside Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The term <i>stately home</i> 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="/wiki/Felicia_Hemans" title="Felicia Hemans">Felicia Hemans</a>, "The Homes of England", originally published in <i><a href="/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="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></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="/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> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Blenheim_Palace_2014.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Exterior of a large English Baroque palace fronted by lawns and gardens" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Blenheim_Palace_2014.jpg/220px-Blenheim_Palace_2014.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Blenheim_Palace_2014.jpg/330px-Blenheim_Palace_2014.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Blenheim_Palace_2014.jpg/440px-Blenheim_Palace_2014.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7044" data-file-height="3628" /></a><figcaption>Blenheim Palace</figcaption></figure> <p>In England, the terms "country house" and "stately home" are sometimes used vaguely and interchangeably; however, many country houses such as <a href="/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="/wiki/Kedleston_Hall" title="Kedleston Hall">Kedleston Hall</a> and <a href="/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-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his book <i>Historic Houses: Conversations in Stately Homes</i>, the author and journalist <a href="/wiki/Robert_Harling_(typographer)" title="Robert Harling (typographer)">Robert Harling</a> documents nineteen "stately homes"; these range in size from the vast <a href="/wiki/Blenheim_Palace" title="Blenheim Palace">Blenheim Palace</a> and <a href="/wiki/Castle_Howard" title="Castle Howard">Castle Howard</a> to the minuscule <a href="/wiki/Ebberston_Hall" title="Ebberston Hall">Ebberston Hall</a>, and in architecture from the Jacobean Renaissance of <a href="/wiki/Hatfield_House" title="Hatfield House">Hatfield House</a> to the eccentricities of <a href="/wiki/Sezincote" class="mw-redirect" title="Sezincote">Sezincote</a>. The book's collection of stately homes also includes <a href="/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="/wiki/Royal_Pavilion" title="Royal Pavilion">Royal Pavilion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Evolution">Evolution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=English_country_house&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Evolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/English_country_house" title="Special:EditPage/English country house">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2015</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Forde_Abbey_06.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Forde_Abbey_06.jpg/220px-Forde_Abbey_06.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Forde_Abbey_06.jpg/330px-Forde_Abbey_06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Forde_Abbey_06.jpg/440px-Forde_Abbey_06.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="421" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Forde_Abbey" title="Forde Abbey">Forde Abbey</a> in Dorset. Many country houses have evolved and been extended over several centuries. Here, the architecture runs from Medieval ecclesiastical to <a href="/wiki/Palladian" class="mw-redirect" title="Palladian">Palladian</a> and on to <a href="/wiki/Strawberry_Hill_Gothic" class="mw-redirect" title="Strawberry Hill Gothic">Strawberry Hill Gothic</a>, while at sometime an attempt at unity has been made by the use of <a href="/wiki/Crenelation" class="mw-redirect" title="Crenelation">crenelation</a>.</figcaption></figure> <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="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">feudal lords</a>, <i>de facto</i> overlords of their <a href="/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">manors</a>. The <a href="/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="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissolution of the Monasteries">Dissolution of the Monasteries</a> saw many former <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical" title="Ecclesiastical">ecclesiastical</a> properties granted to the King's favourites, who then converted them into private country houses. <a href="/wiki/Woburn_Abbey" title="Woburn Abbey">Woburn Abbey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Forde_Abbey" title="Forde Abbey">Forde Abbey</a> and many other mansions with <i><a href="/wiki/Abbey" title="Abbey">abbey</a></i> or <i><a href="/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="/wiki/Palace" title="Palace">palace</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Castle" title="Castle">castle</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Court_(royal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Court (royal)">court</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hall" title="Hall">hall</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mansion" title="Mansion">mansion</a></i>, <i>park</i>, <i>house</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Manor_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Manor House">manor</a></i>, and <i><a href="/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="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I</a>, and under her successor, <a href="/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="/wiki/Burghley_House" title="Burghley House">Burghley House</a>, <a href="/wiki/Longleat" title="Longleat">Longleat House</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hatfield_House" title="Hatfield House">Hatfield House</a> are among the best-known examples of the showy <a href="/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="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inigo_Jones" title="Inigo Jones">Inigo Jones</a> and his form of <a href="/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="/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="/wiki/Neoclassicism" title="Neoclassicism">neoclassicism</a> championed by such architects as <a href="/wiki/Robert_Adam" title="Robert Adam">Robert Adam</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brympton_dEvercy_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Brympton_dEvercy_03.jpg/330px-Brympton_dEvercy_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Brympton_dEvercy_03.jpg/440px-Brympton_dEvercy_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="651" /></a><figcaption><a href="/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="/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_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Country_Life_1927-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Some of the best known of England's country houses were the work of only one architect/designer, built in a relatively short, particular time: <a href="/wiki/Montacute_House" title="Montacute House">Montacute House</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chatsworth_House" title="Chatsworth House">Chatsworth House</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Blenheim_Palace" title="Blenheim Palace">Blenheim Palace</a> are examples. While the latter two are <a href="/wiki/Duke" title="Duke">ducal</a> palaces, Montacute, although built by a <a href="/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="/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 English country houses, often owned at different times by gentlemen and <a href="/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 <a href="/w/index.php?title=High_style_architecture&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="High style architecture (page does not exist)">high architecture</a>, 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="/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="/wiki/Hamstone" title="Hamstone">Ham Hill stone</a>. </p><p>The fashionable <a href="/wiki/William_Kent" title="William Kent">William Kent</a> redesigned <a href="/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="/wiki/Canons_Ashby_House" title="Canons Ashby House">Canons Ashby</a>, home to poet <a href="/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="/wiki/Tudor_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Tudor era">Tudor era</a> around a courtyard, given grandiose plaster ceilings in the <a href="/wiki/Stuart_period" title="Stuart period">Stuart period</a>, and then having <a href="/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="/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="/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="/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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sizes_and_types">Sizes and types</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=English_country_house&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sizes and types"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</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="/wiki/John_Gunther" title="John Gunther">John Gunther</a>, 1940<sup id="cite_ref-gunther1940_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gunther1940-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></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 class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/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> Therefore, for ease or explanation, Britain's country houses can be categorised according to the circumstances of their creation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. (May 2023)">by whom?</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Power_houses">Power houses</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=English_country_house&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Power houses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kedleston_Hall_20080730-04.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Kedleston_Hall_20080730-04.jpg/330px-Kedleston_Hall_20080730-04.jpg" decoding="async" width="330" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Kedleston_Hall_20080730-04.jpg/495px-Kedleston_Hall_20080730-04.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Kedleston_Hall_20080730-04.jpg/660px-Kedleston_Hall_20080730-04.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4284" data-file-height="2756" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Kedleston_Hall" title="Kedleston Hall">Kedleston Hall</a> in <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>, designed by <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Brettingham" title="Matthew Brettingham">Matthew Brettingham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Adam" title="Robert Adam">Robert Adam</a>, one of the great power houses.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/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"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Really large unfortified or barely fortified houses began to take over from the traditional <a href="/wiki/Castle" title="Castle">castles</a> of the crown and magnates during the Tudor period, with vast houses such as <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Court_Palace" title="Hampton Court Palace">Hampton Court Palace</a> and <a href="/wiki/Burghley_House" title="Burghley House">Burghley House</a>, and continued until the 18th century with houses such as <a href="/wiki/Castle_Howard" title="Castle Howard">Castle Howard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kedleston_Hall" title="Kedleston Hall">Kedleston Hall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Holkham_Hall" title="Holkham Hall">Holkham Hall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></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="/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="/wiki/Country_House_Theatres" class="mw-redirect" title="Country House Theatres">theatre</a> where performances were staged.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </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="/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 id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></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-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and would visit each according to the season: <a href="/wiki/Grouse" title="Grouse">Grouse</a> shooting in <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pheasant" title="Pheasant">pheasant</a> shooting and <a href="/wiki/Fox_hunting" title="Fox hunting">fox hunting</a> in England. The <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Rosebery" title="Earl of Rosebery">Earl of Rosebery</a>, for instance, had <a href="/wiki/Dalmeny_House" title="Dalmeny House">Dalmeny House</a> in Scotland, <a href="/wiki/Mentmore_Towers" title="Mentmore Towers">Mentmore Towers</a> in Buckinghamshire, and another house near <a href="/wiki/Epsom" title="Epsom">Epsom</a> just for the racing season.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For many, this way of life, which began a steady decline in 1914, continued well into the 20th century, and for a few continues to this day. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Minor_country_houses">Minor country houses</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=English_country_house&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Minor country houses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the second category of Britain's country houses are those that belonged to the squirearchy or <a href="/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="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Lieutenant">lord/deputy lieutenant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magistrates" class="mw-redirect" title="Magistrates">magistrates</a>, or occasionally even clergy.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/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="/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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Victorian_houses">Victorian houses</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=English_country_house&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Victorian houses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WaddesdonManor.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/WaddesdonManor.JPG/220px-WaddesdonManor.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/WaddesdonManor.JPG/330px-WaddesdonManor.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/WaddesdonManor.JPG/440px-WaddesdonManor.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Waddesdon_Manor" title="Waddesdon Manor">Waddesdon Manor</a>, <a href="/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.</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the <a href="/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="/wiki/Revivalism_(architecture)" title="Revivalism (architecture)">revivalist</a> architectural styles popular throughout the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-Hall,_p25_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hall,_p25-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></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_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hall,_p25-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This new wave of country house building is exemplified by the <a href="/wiki/Rothschild_properties_in_the_home_counties" title="Rothschild properties in the home counties">Rothschild properties in the home counties</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bletchley_Park" title="Bletchley Park">Bletchley Park</a> (rebuilt in several styles, and famous for its code-breaking role in World War II). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Decline">Decline</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=English_country_house&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Decline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/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> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:TrenthamBalustrade.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/TrenthamBalustrade.jpg/220px-TrenthamBalustrade.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/TrenthamBalustrade.jpg/330px-TrenthamBalustrade.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/TrenthamBalustrade.jpg/440px-TrenthamBalustrade.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1335" data-file-height="670" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Trentham_Gardens" class="mw-redirect" title="Trentham Gardens">Trentham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a>. During the 20th century, many hundreds of country houses were demolished, their stone and fixtures sold. During this era, many fine architectural features were transported to the US.</figcaption></figure> <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="/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-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ultimate demise began immediately following <a href="/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="/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="/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="/wiki/Fireplace" title="Fireplace">fireplaces</a>, and <a href="/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="/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="/wiki/Chequers" title="Chequers">Chequers</a> to the nation for the use of a prime minister who might not possess one of his or her own. Chequers still fulfills that need today as do both <a href="/wiki/Chevening_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Chevening House">Chevening House</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dorneywood" title="Dorneywood">Dorneywood</a>, donated for sole use of high-ranking ministers of the Crown. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Today">Today</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=English_country_house&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Today"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Today, many country houses have become hotels,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> schools, hospitals and museums, while others have survived as conserved ruins, but from the early 20th century until the early 1970s, <a href="/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 <a href="/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_England" title="Listed buildings in England">listed</a> as buildings of historic interest with restrictions on restoration and re-creation work. However such work is usually very expensive. Several houses have been restored, some over many years. For example at <a href="/wiki/Copped_Hall" title="Copped Hall">Copped Hall</a> where the restoration started in 1995 continues to this day. </p><p>Although the ownership or management of some houses has been transferred to a <a href="/wiki/Trust_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Trust law">private trust</a>, most notably at <a href="/wiki/Chatsworth_House" title="Chatsworth House">Chatsworth</a>, other houses have transferred art works and furnishings under the <a href="/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 retained for display in the building. This enables the former owners to offset tax, the payment of which would otherwise have necessitated the private sale of the art works. For example, tapestries and furniture at <a href="/wiki/Houghton_Hall" title="Houghton Hall">Houghton Hall</a> are now owned by the <a href="/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="/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-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a <a href="/wiki/Filming_location" title="Filming location">film location</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Corporate_entertainment" title="Corporate entertainment">corporate entertainment</a> venue. While many country houses are open to the public and derive income through that means, they remain homes, in some cases inhabited by the descendants of their original owners. </p><p>The lifestyles of those living and working in a country house in the early 20th century were recreated in a <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> television programme, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Edwardian_Country_House" title="The Edwardian Country House">The Edwardian Country House</a></i>, filmed at <a href="/wiki/Manderston_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Manderston House">Manderston House</a> in Scotland. Another television programme which features life in country houses is the <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> series<i> <a href="/wiki/Downton_Abbey" title="Downton Abbey">Downton Abbey</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=English_country_house&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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G Mitchell.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</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="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Times" title="The Sunday Times">The Sunday Times</a></i> Retrieved 18 February 2011</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=trZX7dbuW54C&dq=longleat+first+safari+park&pg=PA554"><i>New Scientist</i> 2 Dec 1982</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="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">Archived</a> 21 May 2016 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Retrieved 18 February 2011</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The Stately Homes of England" by Noël Coward (1938) was featured in his musical <a href="/wiki/Operette_(musical)" title="Operette (musical)">"Operette"</a>, which premiered in the same year.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Girouard, p.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harling, p 1–16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Country_Life_1927-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Country_Life_1927_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Country Life, Saturday, 7 May 1927.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-gunther1940-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-gunther1940_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFGunther,_John1940" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Gunther" title="John Gunther">Gunther, John</a> (1940). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.149663/2015.149663.Inside-Europe#page/n309/mode/2up"><i>Inside Europe</i></a>. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 287.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Inside+Europe&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=287&rft.pub=Harper+%26+Brothers&rft.date=1940&rft.au=Gunther%2C+John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fin.ernet.dli.2015.149663%2F2015.149663.Inside-Europe%23page%2Fn309%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <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> </li> <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> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Rise-And-Fall-English-Stately-Home/">"Rise and Fall of the English Stately Home"</a>. <i>Historic UK</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 October</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Historic+UK&rft.atitle=Rise+and+Fall+of+the+English+Stately+Home&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.historic-uk.com%2FCultureUK%2FRise-And-Fall-English-Stately-Home%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robinson, 72-79, 83-85, 166-167, 181-187</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Worsley, p. 10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">McKinstrey, p181.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Girouard, p2, describes a squire as "like a little king in his village.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hall,_p25-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hall,_p25_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hall,_p25_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hall, p25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stuart, p. 135.</span> </li> <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:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.aglaiamagazine.com/burley-manor-new-forest-review/">"Staying at an English Manor House"</a>. <i>AGLAIA Magazine</i>. 6 November 2018. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174832/https://www.aglaiamagazine.com/burley-manor-new-forest-review/">Archived</a> from the original on 19 January 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 January</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=AGLAIA+Magazine&rft.atitle=Staying+at+an+English+Manor+House&rft.date=2018-11-06&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aglaiamagazine.com%2Fburley-manor-new-forest-review%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.landedhouses.co.uk/parties">"Large Houses to Rent for Parties"</a>. <i>Mansions & Large Houses for Rent for Parties & Weddings UK</i>. 9 June 2012. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210208103928/https://www.landedhouses.co.uk/party-houses/">Archived</a> from the original on 8 February 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 March</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Mansions+%26+Large+Houses+for+Rent+for+Parties+%26+Weddings+UK&rft.atitle=Large+Houses+to+Rent+for+Parties&rft.date=2012-06-09&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.landedhouses.co.uk%2Fparties&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><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="/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%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwgbh%2Fmasterpiece%2Fshows%2Fdownton-abbey%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources_and_further_reading">Sources and further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=English_country_house&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Sources and further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAirs1975" class="citation book cs1">Airs, Malcolm (1975). <i>The Making of the English Country House, 1500–1640</i>. London: Architectural Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85139-378-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-85139-378-0"><bdi>0-85139-378-0</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+Making+of+the+English+Country+House%2C+1500%E2%80%931640&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Architectural+Press&rft.date=1975&rft.isbn=0-85139-378-0&rft.aulast=Airs&rft.aufirst=Malcolm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEnglish+country+house" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Coutu, Joan, et al. eds. <i>Politics and the English Country House, 1688–1800</i> (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=59643">online book review</a></li></ul> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGirouard1978" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Mark_Girouard" title="Mark Girouard">Girouard, Mark</a> (1978). <span class="id-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="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/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%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:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHall2009" class="citation book cs1">Hall, Michael (2009). <i>The Victorian Country House</i>. London: Aurum Press Ltd. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/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:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHarris1998" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Harris_(curator)" title="John Harris (curator)">Harris, John</a> (1998). <i>No Voice From the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper</i>. London: John Murray. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7195-5567-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-7195-5567-1"><bdi>0-7195-5567-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=No+Voice+From+the+Hall%3A+Early+Memories+of+a+Country+House+Snooper&rft.place=London&rft.pub=John+Murray&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=0-7195-5567-1&rft.aulast=Harris&rft.aufirst=John&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:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKroll1969" class="citation book cs1">Kroll, Alexander, ed. (1969). <i>Historic Houses: Conversations in Stately Homes</i>. Discussions with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Harling_(typographer)" title="Robert Harling (typographer)">Robert Harling</a>. London: Condé Nast. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/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:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLewis1997" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/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="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/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:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLycett_Green1991" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/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="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/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></ul> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcKinstry2005" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Leo_McKinstry" title="Leo McKinstry">McKinstry, Leo</a> (2005). <i>Rosebery: A Statesman in Turmoil</i>. London: John Murray. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/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:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMurdoch2006" class="citation book cs1">Murdoch, Tessa (2006). <i>Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses. A Tribute to John Cornforth</i>. Cambridge: <a href="/wiki/John_Adamson_(publisher)" title="John Adamson (publisher)">John Adamson</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/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><a href="/wiki/John_Martin_Robinson" title="John Martin Robinson">Robinson, John Martin</a>, <i>The English Country Estate</i>, 1988, Century Hutchinson/ National Trust, ISBN 0712622756</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStuart2005" class="citation book cs1">Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie (2005). <span class="id-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>. 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London: Aurum Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/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> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=English_country_house&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output 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towers">Somerset towers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bath_stone" title="Bath stone">Bath stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portland_stone" title="Portland stone">Portland stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flushwork" title="Flushwork">Flushwork</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_landscape_garden" title="English landscape garden">English landscape garden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cruck" title="Cruck">Cruck framing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div><a href="/wiki/Category:Architecture_in_England" title="Category:Architecture in England">Category</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Housing_in_the_United_Kingdom" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible 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towns</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Housing_in_Glasgow" title="Housing in Glasgow">Glasgow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_housing_in_Liverpool" title="History of housing in Liverpool">Liverpool</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Affordability_of_housing_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Affordability of housing in the United Kingdom">Affordability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_British_housing" title="Energy efficiency in British housing">Energy efficiency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Homelessness in the United Kingdom">Homelessness</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_Act_2002" title="Homelessness Act 2002">Act 2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_England" title="Homelessness in England">England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gatekeeping_(UK_housing_term)" title="Gatekeeping (UK housing term)">Gatekeeping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_Reduction_Bill_2016%E2%80%9317" class="mw-redirect" title="Homelessness Reduction Bill 2016–17">Reduction Bill 2016–17</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_Scotland" title="Homelessness in Scotland">Scotland</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homes_England" title="Homes England">Homes England</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Housing_Corporation" title="Housing Corporation">Housing Corporation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_State_for_Housing" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of State for Housing">Minister of State for Housing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_housing_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Public housing in the United Kingdom">Public Housing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right_to_Buy" title="Right to Buy">Right to Buy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slum_clearance_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Slum clearance in the United Kingdom">Slum clearance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Squatting_in_England_and_Wales" title="Squatting in England and Wales">Squatting</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Variants</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Back-to-back_house" title="Back-to-back house">Back-to-back</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Back_to_Backs" title="Birmingham Back to Backs">Birmingham Back to Backs</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boot_house" title="Boot house">Boot</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">English country</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_country_houses_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of country houses in the United Kingdom">List</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_estate" title="Housing estate">Estate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hall_house" title="Hall house">Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oast_house" title="Oast house">Oast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prefabs_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prefabs in the United Kingdom">Prefabricated</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Airey_house" title="Airey house">Airey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atholl_steel_house" title="Atholl steel house">Atholl steel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reema_construction" title="Reema construction">Reema construction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wimpey_no-fines_house" title="Wimpey no-fines house">Wimpey no-fines</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terraced_houses_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Terraced houses in the United Kingdom">Terraced</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Byelaw_terraced_house" title="Byelaw terraced house">Byelaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pre-regulation_terraced_houses_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Pre-regulation terraced houses in the United Kingdom">Pre-regulation</a></li> 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href="/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="/wiki/Housing_(Financial_Provisions)_Act_1924" title="Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924">1924</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_1930" title="Housing Act 1930">1930</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_1933" class="mw-redirect" title="Housing Act 1933">1933</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_1935" title="Housing Act 1935">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/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="/wiki/Housing_(Temporary_Accommodation)_Act_1944" title="Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944">1944</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_1949" title="Housing Act 1949">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/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="/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="/wiki/Housing_Act_1969" title="Housing Act 1969">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_1980" title="Housing Act 1980">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_1985" title="Housing Act 1985">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_1988" title="Housing Act 1988">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_1996" title="Housing Act 1996">1996</a> <ul><li><a href="/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="/wiki/Housing_Act_2004" title="Housing Act 2004">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_and_Regeneration_Act_2008" title="Housing and Regeneration Act 2008">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Housing_(Regulation)_Act_2023" title="Social 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