Entry passes · The Stately Homes
English Heritage Overseas Visitor Pass.
English Heritage looks after 13 of the stately homes on the list. 13 of them charge for entry - that is where this pass earns its keep - and 0 are free to walk into anyway, pass or no pass.
The English Heritage Overseas Visitor Pass can reach 13 of the 286 stately homes on this list, all of them in England. All 13 charge for entry, so the pass is doing real work at every one of them. The most reviewed of them is Osborne, rated 4.6 from 10,203 Google reviews.
The pass, verified
Unlimited entry to over 100 staffed English Heritage places across England, sold as a 9-day or 16-day pass. Listed at £56 (9 days) or £66 (16 days) for a single adult as of July 2026, with two-adult and family versions. English Heritage annual membership covers the same staffed sites for anyone planning repeat trips. Full details and current prices: the official English Heritage Overseas Visitor Pass page.
Confirm before you buy
Pass coverage is set by the operator and can change - a handful of sites, events or seasons are sometimes excluded. Before buying, check the stately homes you actually plan to visit against the official covered-places list on the page linked above.
Houses where the pass matters - 13 charging for entry, best-reviewed first
Osborne
Isle of Wight
Audley End House and Gardens
Essex
Kenwood
Greater London
Wrest Park
Bedfordshire
Eltham Palace and Gardens
Greater London
Brodsworth Hall and Gardens
South Yorkshire
Belsay Hall
Northumberland
Down House (Home of Charles Darwin)
Kent
Apsley House
Greater London
Boscobel House and the Royal Oak
Shropshire
Marble Hill House
Greater London
Ranger's House - The Wernher Collection
Greater London
Great Yarmouth Row Houses and Greyfriars' Cloisters
Norfolk
Common questions
How many stately homes does the English Heritage Overseas Visitor Pass cover?
English Heritage runs 13 of the 286 stately homes on this list, all in England. All 13 are staffed and ticketed, so the pass is worth something at every one. Coverage is set by the operator and a few sites, events or seasons can be excluded, so check the official covered-places list against the houses you actually plan to see.
Which stately homes on the English Heritage Overseas Visitor Pass are the best known?
By the weight of Google reviews, Osborne (4.6 from 10,203 Google reviews), Audley End House and Gardens (4.6 from 6,562 Google reviews) and Kenwood (4.7 from 6,481 Google reviews). Review count is a rough measure of how busy a house is rather than how good it is, but it is the honest way to say which of English Heritage's houses most people actually go to.
Where are English Heritage's stately homes?
Across 9 counties and regions of England, with the most in Greater London (5). That spread is what decides whether the pass pays: it is a single-trip ticket, so the houses you want need to sit close enough together to reach inside its run of days.
Does the English Heritage Overseas Visitor Pass work outside England?
No. It works at English Heritage's own places in England and nowhere else. Scotland, where this list holds 28 houses, is covered by the Historic Scotland Explorer Pass; Wales, where this list holds 17 houses, is covered by the Cadw Explorer Pass and the National Trust Explorer Pass; Northern Ireland, where this list holds 8 houses, is covered by the National Trust Explorer Pass. The National Trust for Scotland is a separate charity from the National Trust, and its 11 houses here are on none of the four passes.
How well rated are the stately homes the English Heritage Overseas Visitor Pass covers?
Across the 13 of them carrying a Google rating, the average is 4.64. The best rated with a meaningful number of reviews behind it is Kenwood at 4.7 from 6,481, then Brodsworth Hall and Gardens at 4.7 from 4,279. That floor of 200 reviews matters: without it a perfect score drawn from three visitors outranks a house thousands of people have been to.
Can you stay the night at any of the English Heritage Overseas Visitor Pass houses?
3 of English Heritage's 13 houses on this list offer some form of overnight stay, Osborne and Audley End House and Gardens among them. The pass is an entry ticket and buys you nothing towards a bed, so a stay is booked and paid for separately.