English country houses with changed use
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Many English country houses have experienced a change of use and are no longer privately occupied.[1][2]
Country houses converted to apartments
- Escowbeck
- Finedon Hall
- Hazelwood Hall
- Runshaw Hall
- Thurland Castle
- Woodfold Hall
Country houses converted to luxury hotels
- Cliveden
- Coworth House
- The Grove, Watford
- Hartwell House
- Peckforton Castle
- Shaw Hill
- Taymouth Castle
- Thurnham Hall
- Wyresdale Hall
Country houses used as schools or for other educational purposes
- Alston Hall
- Ashridge House
- Bramshill House
- Culford Park
- Dartington Hall
- Harlaxton Manor
- Heslington Hall
- Hinchingbrooke House
- Rossall Hall
- Prior Park
- Scarisbrick Hall
- Stowe House
- Townhill Park House
- Tring Park Mansion
- Westonbirt House
- Wennington Hall
Country houses used for religious purposes
Country houses used as hospitals or residential care homes
- Cuernden Hall
- Gisburne Hall, private hospital
- Leckhampton Court
- Littledale Hall
- Wrightington Hall, NHS hospital
Country houses run as museums or art galleries
- Astley Hall, museum and art gallery
- Compton Verney, art gallery
- Cusworth Hall, The museum of South Yorkshire Life
- National Gallery of Scotland
- Lytham Hall, run by English Heritage
- National Gallery of Scotland
- Samlesbury Hall, run by trust
- Saint Fagans Castle, National Museum of History
- Temple Newsam House, a museum of the decorative arts
- Towneley Park, museum and art gallery
- Turton Tower, run by Blackburn Council
- Wollaton Hall, natural history museum.
Country houses used for other purposes
- Alton Towers, amusement park.
- Drayton Manor Theme Parkamusement park
- Donington Hall, office
- Hewell Grange, open prison
- Heskin Hall, antiques centre
- Waddow Hall, Girlguiding centre
- Winmarleigh Hall, children's activity centre
- Wyresdale Park, barn wedding venue and business centre
Other uses
The
National Portrait Gallery (London) has several outstations at country houses: Montacute House is partially used to display Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits; Beningbrough Hall is used to display 18th-century portraits and Bodrhyddan Hall
displays 19th-century portraits.
Ditchley is owned and used for conferences by the Ditchley Foundation
.
See also
References
- ^ "British stately homes - the problems of funding the family estate". cnn.com. 13 March 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ Jones, Kevin (2019-03-12). "A History of English Country Houses". This Old City. Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-01-17.