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Houses near Birmingham
31 stately homes sit within 40 miles of Birmingham. The closest is Birmingham Back to Backs, about 1 mile out, and the best-known nearby is Calke Abbey. Sorted by real distance, not a rough guess.
There are 31 stately homes near Birmingham on this list across 10 counties. Birmingham Back to Backs is the best-rated, at 4.8 from 1,731 Google reviews. Calke Abbey draws the most reviews of any house here, 10,012 of them.
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Every stately home on this list - 31 in total, 14 you can stay overnight in
Birmingham Back to Backs
West Midlands · 1 mi away
Restored courtyard of 19th-century back-to-back houses, the last surviving example in Birmingham
Hagley Hall
Worcestershire · 11 mi away
One of the last great Palladian houses built in England, home of the Lyttelton family.
Packwood House
Warwickshire · 11 mi away
Tudor timber-framed house famous for its yew garden said to represent the Sermon on the Mount
Baddesley Clinton
Warwickshire · 12 mi away
Moated medieval manor house that sheltered Catholic priests in hidden priest holes
Moseley Old Hall
Staffordshire · 14 mi away
Elizabethan farmhouse where Charles II hid after the Battle of Worcester in 1651
Wightwick Manor
West Midlands · 14 mi away
Victorian Arts and Crafts manor house with original William Morris interiors
Arbury Hall
Warwickshire · 16 mi away
Gothicised Elizabethan house, childhood inspiration for novelist George Eliot.
Coughton Court
Warwickshire · 17 mi away
Tudor gatehouse and house associated with the Throckmorton family and the Gunpowder Plot
Hanbury Hall
Worcestershire · 17 mi away
William and Mary-style house with painted ceilings and staircase by James Thornhill
Chillington Hall
Staffordshire · 17 mi away
Home of the Giffard family for over 800 years.
Boscobel House and the Royal Oak
Shropshire · 20 mi away
Timber-framed 17th-century house where Charles II hid in a priest's hole after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651.
Dudmaston
Shropshire · 20 mi away
Late 17th-century house with a collection of modern art assembled by the Labouchere family
Weston Park
Shropshire · 22 mi away
Former Earls of Bradford seat, now run by an independent charitable foundation.
Shugborough Estate
Staffordshire · 22 mi away
18th-century mansion and estate, ancestral home of the Anson family, Earls of Lichfield
Charlecote Park
Warwickshire · 22 mi away
Tudor gatehouse and Victorian-remodelled house, home of the Lucy family since the 12th century
The Greyfriars
Worcestershire · 25 mi away
Medieval timber-framed merchant's house in the centre of Worcester
Benthall Hall
Shropshire · 27 mi away
Tudor stone house with fine 17th-century oak panelling and plasterwork
Sudbury Hall
Derbyshire · 28 mi away
17th-century house with an ornate carved staircase and long gallery
Calke Abbey
Derbyshire · 28 mi away
Baroque mansion deliberately preserved in a state of decline rather than fully restored
Sunnycroft
Shropshire · 30 mi away
Victorian gentleman's suburban villa in Wellington, with its gardens and outbuildings largely intact
Stoneywell
Leicestershire · 30 mi away
Arts and Crafts cottage designed by Ernest Gimson for his brother
Melbourne Hall
Derbyshire · 30 mi away
Historic house with notable early 18th-century formal gardens.
Upton House
Warwickshire · 32 mi away
17th-century house remodelled in the 1920s, housing Lord Bearsted's art collection
Farnborough Hall
Warwickshire · 32 mi away
18th-century house with an unusual terraced walk lined with classical temples
Wilderhope Manor
Shropshire · 33 mi away
Elizabethan limestone manor house on Wenlock Edge, operated as a YHA youth hostel
Snowshill Manor
Gloucestershire · 33 mi away
Cotswold manor house filled with Charles Paget Wade's eccentric collection of craft objects
Attingham Park
Shropshire · 35 mi away
Neoclassical mansion built for the first Lord Berwick, with a picture gallery roofed in cast iron and glass
Kedleston Hall
Derbyshire · 36 mi away
Neoclassical mansion designed by Robert Adam for the Curzon family
Whitmore Hall
Staffordshire · 37 mi away
One of the oldest brick-built houses in England still lived in by the descendants of its builders.
Berrington Hall
Herefordshire · 38 mi away
Neoclassical house designed by Henry Holland, set in a Capability Brown landscape
Canons Ashby
Northamptonshire · 39 mi away
Elizabethan manor house built by the Dryden family, largely unaltered since the 1710s
Distances are straight-line ("as the crow flies"), not driving or train time - check the operator's own site for real travel options before you go.
Common questions
How many stately homes can you visit near Birmingham?
31 stately homes near Birmingham are on this list, spread across 10 counties. Every one of them opens to visitors in some form, whether that is a ticketed house, a regular tour or a hotel occupying the building itself.
Which is the best-rated stately home near Birmingham?
Birmingham Back to Backs in West Midlands, rated 4.8 from 1,731 Google reviews. Only houses with at least 100 reviews are considered, so a high score from a handful of visitors does not top the list.
Which stately home near Birmingham is the most reviewed?
Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, with 10,012 Google reviews at 4.6. That is a rough proxy for how well known and how busy a house is, not a visitor figure, which no house here publishes.
Are any stately homes near Birmingham free to enter?
None of the 31 on this list is recorded as free entry. Entry prices are set by each house rather than held here, and several are covered by a membership scheme, so check the operator's own site before you travel.
Who runs the stately homes near Birmingham?
Of the 31 on this list, 1 is run by English Heritage, 24 are run by the National Trust and the remaining 6 by private estates, independent trusts or local councils. Who owns a house decides whether a membership card gets you in, so each entry names its operator and links to the official site.