Notable English Historic Houses
- Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire: Medieval fortified keep and house with state apartments.
- Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire: Vanbrugh's monument to the 1st Duke of Marlborough and England.
- Brighton Pavilion, Sussex: Prince Regent's Oriental palace.
- Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire: Elizabethan opulence round medieval core.
- Burton Agnes Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire: Late-Elizabethan house by Robert Smythson.
- Castle Howard, North Yorkshire: Vanbrugh's Baroque palace.
- Chatsworth House, Derbyshire: Ducal palace in parkland setting.
- Haddon Hall, Derbyshire: Medieval fortified hall house round courtyard.
- Hampton Court, west London: Palace of Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII, converted by Christopher Wren, Vanbrugh and William Kent.
- Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire: Greatest English prodigy house, built for Bess of Hardwick.
- Harewood House, West Yorkshire: Robert Adam palace altered by Charles Barry, Old Master collection.
- Holkham Hall, Norfolk: Masterpiece of Palladian revival, with original decoration.
- Kensington Palace, Central London: Christopher Wren palace, William Kent state rooms, Mary II of England's domestic apartments.
- Kingston Lacy, Dorset: Italian palazzo housing Grand Tour collections.
- Kiplin Hall, North Yorkshire: Jacobean craftmanship with other styles in an English country house.
- Knole, Kent: Medieval and Jacobean palace of the Barons Sackville, cream of Elizabethan and Jacobean craftmanship.
- Parham House, Sussex: Elizabethan house barely altered, with collection of rare embroidery.
- Speke Hall, Lancashire: Elizabethan mansion, restored but largely as built.
- Syon House, west London: Robert Adam's greatest interiors in Thames-side mansion.
- Wilton House, Wiltshire: Palladian palace with Inigo Jones and James Wyatt interiors.
- Windsor Castle, Berkshire: Favoured home of the monarch, state rooms of all periods.
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