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Houses near Liverpool
16 stately homes sit within 40 miles of Liverpool. The closest is 20 Forthlin Road, about 5 miles out, and the best-known nearby is Dunham Massey. Sorted by real distance, not a rough guess.
There are 16 stately homes near Liverpool on this list across Cheshire, Conwy, Denbighshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and Wrexham. Plas Mawr is the best-rated, at 4.8 from 644 Google reviews. Dunham Massey draws the most reviews of any house here, 12,022 of them.
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Every stately home on this list - 16 in total, 7 you can stay overnight in
20 Forthlin Road
Merseyside · 5 mi away
Terraced house in Liverpool where Paul McCartney grew up, marketed with John Lennon's childhood home as the Beatles Childhood Homes
Speke Hall
Merseyside · 7 mi away
Tudor timber-framed manor house near Liverpool John Lennon Airport
Rufford Old Hall
Lancashire · 17 mi away
15th-century hall with a spectacular hammerbeam roof and carved wooden screen
Bodrhyddan Hall
Denbighshire · 20 mi away
House occupied by the same family since it was built in the 16th century, open on limited days each summer.
Arley Hall
Cheshire · 22 mi away
Victorian Jacobean-style hall, home of the same family since the 12th century.
Dunham Massey
Cheshire · 24 mi away
Georgian and Edwardian house set in a medieval deer park
Tatton Park
Cheshire · 26 mi away
Neoclassical mansion and estate, managed on the Trust's behalf by Cheshire East Council
Erddig
Wrexham · 26 mi away
Late 17th-century house noted for its unusually well-documented relationship with its servants
Hoghton Tower
Lancashire · 28 mi away
Fortified hilltop manor house, seat of the de Hoghton family since the 12th century.
Capesthorne Hall
Cheshire · 33 mi away
Home of the Bromley-Davenport family for over 300 years.
Bodysgallen Hall
Conwy · 34 mi away
17th-century hall near Llandudno, owned by the Trust and operated as a hotel
Aberconwy House
Conwy · 36 mi away
Medieval merchant's house within the walled town of Conwy
Plas Mawr
Conwy · 36 mi away
Widely regarded as the best-preserved Elizabethan town house in Britain, built 1576-1585.
Little Moreton Hall
Cheshire · 36 mi away
Timber-framed moated manor house dating from the 15th century
Lyme Park
Cheshire · 39 mi away
Grand Palladian mansion used as Pemberley in the BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice
Gawthorpe Hall
Lancashire · 39 mi away
Elizabethan house remodelled by Charles Barry, managed on the Trust's behalf by Lancashire County Council
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 Liverpool?
16 stately homes near Liverpool are on this list, spread across Cheshire, Conwy, Denbighshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and Wrexham. 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 Liverpool?
Plas Mawr in Conwy, rated 4.8 from 644 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 Liverpool is the most reviewed?
Dunham Massey in Cheshire, with 12,022 Google reviews at 4.7. 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 Liverpool free to enter?
None of the 16 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 Liverpool?
Of the 16 on this list, 1 is run by Cadw, 11 are run by the National Trust and the remaining 4 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.