About
About this list
The Stately Homes exists because no single source lists every stately home you can visit in the UK, regardless of who runs it. The National Trust, English Heritage and Historic Environment Scotland each publish their own list of their own properties; nobody publishes the complete one.
279 stately homes are listed. Each entry combines structural facts (operator, condition, access) with ratings and review summaries drawn from publicly available Google reviews, and a short editorial note written and fact-checked against that review data - not copied from a brochure.
Sources and method
The list of properties is compiled from the official, publicly published property lists of the UK's heritage bodies - English Heritage, the National Trust, the National Trust for Scotland, Historic Environment Scotland and Cadw - alongside the independent estates, councils and house hotels that open to the public. Ratings and review summaries are drawn from publicly available Google reviews and are always attributed as such; individual visitor quotes are shown as one person's experience, not as operator-verified fact. The editorial notes are written independently and fact-checked against that review data - never copied from an operator's own materials.
Other UK heritage days out
If houses aren't the only thing on your list, Air Museums UK does the same job for the country's aviation heritage sites, and The Castle Rolls does it for the UK's castles - similarly independent, complete directories, each covering a different slice of Britain's history.
Who builds this
The Stately Homes is built and maintained by Elevate Growth, a UK agency that does much the same job for YouTube channels - pulling scattered, messy data into one clear picture of what's actually working, and what to do about it.
Found an error?
Houses change hands, close for conservation, and adjust their opening hours more often than any directory can track in real time. If something here is wrong, out of date, or a house is missing entirely, corrections are always welcome at [email protected].