Castles, Palaces & Stately Homes
Bolsover Castle was built in the 12th century by the Peverel family and became Crown property in 1155 when the third William Peverel fled into exile.
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Boscobel House was built in about 1632, when John Giffard of Whiteladies Priory converted a timber-framed farmhouse into a hunting lodge.
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Bowes Castle was built in the corner of an old Roman fort guarding the strategically important Stainforth Pass through the Pennines.
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Bowood is Georgian country house with interiors by Robert Adam and a garden designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown.
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Bramber Castle is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle built by William De Braose about 1070. Most of the surviving ruin dates from this time
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The ruin of Brough Castle stands on a ridge commanding strategic Stainmore Pass, on the site of a Roman fort.
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Burton Agnes Manor House was built by Roger de Stuteville between 1170 and 1180, and is a surviving example of a Norman manor house.
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Burton Agnes Hall is an Elizabethan manor house built by Sir Henry Griffith in 1601–10 to designs attributed to Robert Smythson.
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Calshot Castle is one of Henry VIII's device forts, built on Calshot Spit at the Solent to guard the entrance to Southampton Water.
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Extensively developed in the early 18th century, Goodwood House has been the home of the Dukes of Richmond & Lennox for over 300 years.
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Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the present house was started in 1497 and has been home to the Hart Dyke family for 20 generations.
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Lulworth Castle was built in 1610 as a hunting lodge by Thomas Howard, 3rd Lord Bindon, who was the son of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk.
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Lyddington Bede House started life as the medieval wing of a palace belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln.
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Lydford Castle was built around 1132 AD. In the 16th century it was used as a prison and had a frightening reputation.
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Maiden Castle is the largest and most complex Iron Age hill fort in Britain, laid out in about 600BC.
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Marble Hill House was built in 1724-1729 for Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk, and mistress of King George II.
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Completed in 1544, Hurst Castle is one of Henry VIII's Device Forts built to guard the approaches to Portsmouth.
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Kelmarsh Hall is an elegant, 18th century country house built in 1732 for William Hanbury, by Francis Smith to a James Gibbs design.
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King Charles's Castle is a coastal artillery fort near the northern extremity of the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly.
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Kirby Hall is an Elizabethan country house, built in 1570 and based on the designs in French architectural pattern books.
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