The Stately Homes

Stately Home Guides

History, architecture and social history - long-form essays that go deeper than a single entry, cross-linked into the full list of 286 UK stately homes.

27 July 2026

What Is a Palladian Country House?

The design language behind half the great houses on this list - temple fronts, raised piano nobiles and mathematical proportion, imported from one 16th-century Italian architect and remade as an 18th-century English obsession.