Manor house

Some photos from last week at Asthall Manor. A dreamy Jacobean Cotswolds manor house that was the childhood home of the Mitford sisters. Everything about Asthall Manor is romantic – the gables, the roses, the lake, the ballroom, and the swans on the willow-bordered River Windrush. The house, which dates from 1620, was immortalised as Alconleigh in Nancy Mitford’s ‘The Pursuit of Love’. Fans of the 1945 novel will be thrilled to learn that the ‘Hons’ cupboard’ remains intact at the top of the…

Reddish House, in the Wiltshire countryside, was bought by Beaton for £10,000 in the 1940s

Harlaxton Manor, Harlaxton, UK

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Surrounded by green forests and large fields in the beautiful area of Gloucestershire in the South West of England lies the picturesque manor house Avening Court. Now we present a collection of antique furniture from this unique place at auction. Read more here

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A fully-furnished Victorian Gothic house, located in Gloucestershire, is now available to rent. Stanley Park was built in 1584 and then extensively rebuilt in 1850 and enlarged again in 1870 for S.S. Marling, a cloth manufacturer and local politician. The house has recently undergone an eight-year renovation to bring it into the 21st century whilst retaining the character of its illustrious past.

Set within the glorious estate of one of Europe’s most spectacular manor house hotels, The Golf Course at Adare Manor is among the best championship courses.

A refined and historic mansion in the pastoral English countryside that is tied to British—and Hollywood—royalty has just hit the market for £13.5 million (US$17.7 million). The more than 300-year-old home is in Hampshire—an area also known as Jane Austen’s County for being the author’s beloved home for much of her life—is known as Shawford Park and the manor is thought to date to 1685.