Sentences with phrase «stately homes»

As well as 25 bedrooms, nine principal bathrooms and four large reception rooms, the house also boasts a spa, games room, home cinema and a gym and is described by the agents as one of England's finest stately homes.

Pediments that once graced the facades of stately homes might not have a place on your home's exterior, but they can make quite the statement inside your home.

This house is designed so well, the merger of two different characters into a form of stately homes and beautiful.

Most were stately homes, but there were some beautiful, historic and quaint homes there as well.

Love those older stately homes, they just don't build»em like that anymore.

Highland Park reminds me of our unique stately homes with mature oak trees.

Our listings include everything from condos to stately homes.

«The delegates were impressed with London's stately homes and diverse commercial architecture,» says Rick Odegaard, past - president of LSTREB and one of the commercial Realtors who helped organize the forum.

However, there is a distinct possibility that people may live in them, says Miller Hendry, which points to inhabited buildings such as stately homes and converted churches as examples.

«Another concern is with private property owners living in a place that used to be, or perhaps still is, a landmark or cultural destination, such as stately homes, churches and converted buildings.

This exhibition is particularly special because it brings together so many rarely exhibited paintings that are normally housed in museums, churches, stately homes, castles and private collections within the UK.

The full - length portrait of the lavishly dressed aristocrat has hung at one of Britain's grandest stately homes, Castle Howard in North Yorkshire — made famous as the backdrop for Brideshead Revisited — for more than 200 years.

In tracing these paths to and from Wave Hill, Jensen combines information about significant historical landscapes — whether stately homes or an august tree — with his own narrative and experience along these particular routes.

Whether you love sprawling national museums or cool independent galleries, cutting - edge art festivals or historic stately homes, Edinburgh boasts a vibrant cultural scene.

Every few miles there will be a historic site from cliff top castles over looking the Moray Firth to hidden from view sites of former medieval palaces and stately homes.

Warner Leisure Hotels offer a superb range of adult only hotels, with coastal villages and former stately homes.

The National Trust preserve and conserve stately homes, villages, gardens, moorlands, coastlines, islands and much more.

There are also top attractions to enjoy from hair - raising rollercoasters to spellbinding stately homes.

With a choice of stately homes such as Chatsworth House and impressive natural surroundings, there is plenty to explore in Derbyshire.

The afternoon and the morning of tomorrow is completely at your leisure to enjoy the many sights of this city, which features Victorian and Edwardian spires and towers, neo-Gothic buildings and stately homes.

The afternoon is at your leisure to explore this city, which features Victorian and Edwardian spires and towers, neo-Gothic buildings and stately homes.

With summer finally abating and a new series of the globally popular Downton Abbey set to begin this weekend, insights from VisitBritain reveal that visiting castles, stately homes and famous buildings in Britain is now a top priority for overseas visitors.

Minister for Tourism Hugh Robertson said: «Britain's castles and heritage sites, like Downton Abbey style stately homes, are some of our biggest tourist attractions for visitors from overseas.

The magnificent stately homes of Chatsworth and Haddon Hall with their wonderful gardens and fantastic events are only a few miles away.

So many beautiful, exciting and interesting places are also within easy reach by car, train or bus: the cathedral city of Canterbury and its unique world heritage site attractions, Dover, the medieval town of Rye, Leeds Castle, wildlife parks, miniature railways, stately homes and glorious gardens are just some of the attractions.

Holidays has a great range of short breaks in the UK, Ireland and Europe covering everything from stately homes to Christmas markets, where you can join in with as much or as little as you choose.

The attractive tours of Uttoxeter and Ashbourne are only a few miles away, the latter being the «gateway» to Dovedale, which has many country walks, stately homes and gardens.

By contrast the surrounding areas of Cheshire offer beautiful countryside, stately homes and magnificent country estates.

There are countless cultural things to do in Venice: the Piazza San Marco, with its basilica, bell tower, and the Doge's Palace; the galleries in stately homes — from the Ca» d'Oro to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection — squaring off against each other across the Grand Canal; and the islands of the lagoon, like Murano and Burano.

An unexpected delight was Castle Howard, decked out charmingly for Christmas and maintaining a really family feel so often lost from stately homes.

The inventive landscape artist coined the idea of the stereotypical English country garden; smooth grass, scattered tress and serpentine lakes that have since become iconic and apparent at many of the country's remaining stately homes, including Blenheim Palace, Warwick Castle and Kew Gardens.

Set in a 1,000 - acre (405 - hectare) estate in the rolling Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the iconic Castle Howard is one of England's best - loved stately homes.

The excursion follows the famous Châteaux Route, with views of the area's noted stately homes, including the spectacular château of Lafite - Rothschild.

Northamptonshire, just an hour or so from London, has lush rolling landscape and more stately homes than any other region in England.

There are topics of general interest such as English and Scottish soccer, premiership football teams, patriotic songs, Christmas carols, the monarchs of Britain and the history of British towns and cities and others more specific such as stately homes, churches and cathedrals, hymns and Bible Study.

American heiress Gemma Lancaster Phillips has crossed the pond to help her cousin defeat the three other stately homes vying for the prize.

There is a city tradition, from the private tranquil libraries of stately homes such as North London's 17th - century estate Kenwood House in Hampstead Heath to the British Library's Reading Room in King's Cross — a place where the etiquette policy strongly discourages the presence of mobile phones entirely with tactfully placed signs.

After the introductions have all happened and the plot now has to go through the business of unfolding we are suddenly on, essentially, a grand caper, that starts to feel episodic and a little empty, especially when Zero and Gustav are away from the fabulous interiors of the stately homes and hotels that are clearly Gustav's natural element.

Grant and Kerr are Victor and Hillary Ryall, nobility who reside in one of Britain's many stately homes.

If you're hoping to impress your date, suggest a day out at one of Kent's magnificent stately homes.

Dotted with colourful houseboats and oftimes lined by magnificent stately homes head East towards Camden; if you're lucky you might even catch sight of the hyenas and birdlife as you wander through Regents Park and London Zoo — all for free!

Wiltshire has a lot of stately homes, and none finer for a daytime date than Lydiard Park.

They will flourish when every holiday - maker adds «zoo» to the natural check - list of galleries, cathedrals, stately homes and beaches that they must take in.

In recent years, visitors to museums and stately homes have become accustomed to viewing historic textiles in dim light because conservators fear that the dyes will fade in bright light.

SQUINTING at dimly lit tapestries, costumes and silks could be a thing of the past if Britain's museums and stately homes take up the results of a recent study.

The Daily Telegraph discloses how Tory grandees have received tens of thousands of pounds to maintain manor houses and stately homes.

The bibles are thought to be up to 200 years old and were lent to the church by the Hopetoun family, who own the Hopetoun House stately home and 6,500 acre estate in West Lothian.

The stars have become household names, the DVD box sets have netted millions in sales, and American visitors have turned its stately home setting into a lucrative tourist attraction.

Tucked behind the stately home of the Agassiz Baldwin Community — itself a vibrant neighborhood gathering place — Maud Morgan offers classes for all ages in a range of decorative and physical art, including pottery, woodworking, drawing, silk - screening, print - making, photography, and painting.

The MP lives in the stately home Charborough House.