country houses

Castle Howard is a Baroque country house with extensive landscaped gardens, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor for the Earl of Carlisle. It is still occupied by the owners but is open to the public.

Country house. c1695-1705 for Sir Edward Blackett, possibly to designs by Sir Christopher Wren; north and south wings added on east side c1775.

A rare and well-preserved example of a Jacobean country house, Chastleton House was begun in 1603 for a prosperous wool merchant. The same family owned the house for nearly 400 years, whose declining prosperity left the house essentially unchanged.

Tweed cloth mill; converted into apartments. 1872, as dated below clock on the circular chimney stack, by George Woodhouse, a Lancashire architect specialising in mill structures.

Kimbolton Castle (now Kimbolton School) in Cambridgeshire is best known as the final home of Catherine of Aragon, following the annulment of her marriage to King Henry VIII.

Late medieval manor house reputedly burnt in 1553 by the Duke of Northumberland as a reprisal for the Huddleston family's hospitality to Mary on July 6 1553.

Outstanding for both historical and architectural reasons. A courtyard house in landscaped grounds, probably on site of the mediaeval nunnery. Rebuilt by 1st Earl of Pembroke after 1544 and largely finished by 1563.