Lincolnshire Historic Houses

Alford Manor House & Museum

Thatched 17th century manor house with displays of Agriculture, Archaeology, Archives, Decorative and Applied Art, Land Transport, Social History

The Manor House  West Street  Alford   LN13 9HT  Tel: 01507  463073   Email

Belton House

Built in 1685-88 for Sir John Brownlow whose family continued to live here for the next 300 years. The interiors contain fine plasterwork and wood-carving, as well as important collections of paintings, furniture, tapestries and silver. There are formal gardens, an orangery, an enormous landscape park with lakeside walks, a Wildlife Discovery Centre and large adventure playground and Bellmount Tower.

Grantham   NG32 2LS  Tel: 01476 566116   Email

Billinghay Old Vicarage Cottage

This thatched cottage dating from the mid 1600s was originally the vicarage until 1724. A dramatic fire in 1804 destroyed much of the old village, fortunately the cottage survived.

Church Street  Billinghay  Lincoln  LN4 4HN  Tel: 01526 861845  Email

Boothby Pagnell Manor House

A Norman manor house made entirely of local limestone.

Grantham  NG33 4DQ  Tel: 01476 585374

Boston Fydell House and Garden

The most beautiful and grand house in Boston, Fydell House was built in 1726 for a local merchant. Its fine architecture is a testament to the wealth of 18th Century Boston.

South Square  Boston PE21 6HU   Tel: 01205 351520

Burghley House

Built between 1565 and 1587 by William Cecil, Lord Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I.  Cecil intended Burghley as his family seat; he also owned a London house and the remarkable palace for entertaining the Queen and Court that he built at Theobalds Park in Hertfordshire (sadly no longer standing.) William Cecil was his own architect, basing the design for Burghley on elements of other great houses of the period together with European influences.  It seems that Cecil himself spent little time at the house beyond visits to oversee elements of the building.  The need to be in close attendance to the intrigues of the Elizabethan court prevented him from spending too much time at his country estate

Stamford, Lincolnshire, PE9 3JY Tel: 01780 752451  Email

Doddington Hall & Gardens

Doddington Hall is a very fine late Elizabethan Mansion, completed in 1600. The house is full of fascinating textiles, porcelain, furniture and family portraits. The Hall is surrounded by five acres of romantic walled gardens, with formal topiary, box-edged knot garden, fountains and sumptuous borders. Flag Iris is a speciality

Lincoln LN6 4RU  Tel: 01522 694 308   Email

Gainsborough Old Hall 

Over 500 years old, it is one of the best preserved timber-framed medieval manor houses in Britain. It has a medieval kitchen, a Great Hall and Tudor brick tower

Parnell Street  Gainsborough  DN21 2NB  Tel 01427 612669   Email

Harlaxton Manor

An immense architectural masterpiece  is now a private college, the building was once considered as a royal residence by Edward VII. The Gardens were designed as a 'Walk around Europe' with terraces, colonnades and ornamental water features.

Harlaxton,  NG32 1AG  Tel: 01476 403000   Email

Gunby Hall

A red-brick house, dating from 1700, with Victorian walled gardens.  The Hall has panelled rooms and a beautiful oak staircase, as well as many fine paintings and items of furniture and china. The gardens are planted with traditional English vegetables, fruit and flowers, with espaliered apples and pears and contain a dovecote predating the house.

Gunby, Spilsby  PE23 5SS  Tel: 01909 486411   Email

Lincoln Medieval Bishops Palace 

The seat of power, from the Thames to the Humber, for over 500 years.
Discover the fascinating history of this building and its residents. Set dramatically in the shadow of Lincoln Cathedral, these are the remains of a vast medieval palace once belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln - among the wealthiest in England

Minster Yard Lincoln  LN2 1PU  Tel: 01522 527468

Marston Hall and Gardens

Ancient home of the Thorold family. The hall is filled with a notable collection of family pictures and furniture. It is surrounded by three acres of garden, including romantic walks and avenues, formal rose gardens, knot garden, laburnum avenue. An ancient laburnum is reputedly the largest in England

School Lane  Marston  Grantham  NG32 2HQ  Tel: 01400 250225

Woolsthorpe Manor 

17th-century manor house, birthplace and family home of Sir Isaac Newton.

23 Newton Way, Woolsthorpe-by-Coltersworth, Grantham  NG33 5NR  Tel: 01476 860338 Email