-North Yorkshire Historic Houses

A Georgian construction surrounded by a ’Capability’ Brown landscaped parkland. Inside there is a collection of 18thC furniture, paintings and porcelain. The grounds have a John Carr stable block converted into a chapel in Victorian times, a Gothic-style folly built by Daniel Garrett in c1745, coach house with carriage. Victorian stable block, walled garden, terraced garden and lake with a Roman-style tem

Built by John Bourchier in 1716 this Georgian hall is set in 148ha and contains over 100 pictures on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, a cantilevered staircase, furniture and porcelain. There is a Victorian laundry, a plotting shed and a garden. There is new walled garden and a Pike Ponds walk

A Georgian house, built for Benjamin Agar started in 1799 and was completed in 1807. The most significant features of the house are the entrance hall with its stone cantilevered staircase and the adjoining oval drawing room with an identically shaped room above. Brockfield retains its orginal architectural features, a good selection of furniture and some interesting Stapleton and Howard family pictures

Home of the Tempest family since it was built in 1597 and originally of Elizabethan architecture. The House was enlarged in 18thC and 19thC. In 1644 the Hall was requisitioned by Cromwell during the Civil War and this was the only period during which the building was not occupied by the Tempest family. Robert Tempest was killed in a skirmish with Cromwell’s troops on the front lawn.

Built in 1699 the House contains excellent collections of furniture, paintings, porcelain and statuary, most of which has been collected by succeeding generations of the Howard family. There is Furniture by Chippendale and Sheraton, paintings by Gainsborough, Holbein, Reynolds and Rubens, ancient Greek and Roman statuary and exquisite porcelain and china are all on view inside the house. The House is set in over 1,000 acres of parkland, lawns, woodland gardens, lakes, fountains and magnificent Rose Gardens with collections of old and modern roses. The woodland garden has unique collection or rare trees, shrubs, rhododendrons, magnolias and azaleas

A handsome Palladian villa standing at the entrance to Wensleydale, North Yorkshire. Designed by the celebrated architect John Carr for Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, and completed in 1768, it is widely recognised as one of the finest medium-sized English houses built in the Palladian style.

The Hall stands in extensive woodland and formal gardens which are open to the public from mid-March to mid-September. Stunning seasonal displays of snowdrops and daffodils carpet the woodland walks and garden trails, making it an absolute must for garden and nature lovers alike.

A Baroque mansion built in 1713 is now the family home of Lord and Lady Feversham. You can visit the restored principal rooms , typical of a late 19th century ’grand interior’, and the landscaped ’green garden’ with its temples and terraces, set in parkland. You can explore the National Nature Reserve within over 400 acres of rolling Parkland.

Restored as one of the finest Georgian townhouses in England, with exceptional collections of Georgian furniture, late 17th century and early 18th century clocks, and Noel Terry collection of paintings and porcelain. Joseph Cortese Stucco work. Restored 18th century kitchen with utensils

Kiplikn, Nr Scorton, Richmond DL10 6AT Tel: 01748 818178 Email

King’s Manor

Fine Grade I Listed building. Huntingdon Room, cellars and courtyards

Exhibition Square, York, YO1 7EP Tel: 01904 433995

Mansion House

Official residence of York's Lord Mayor who ranks second only to London's in the kingdom. This residence is more than ten years older and this fine example of Georgian architecture was built between 1725 and 1730

St Helen’s Square, York YO1 9QL 01904 551049 Email

A spectacular mediaeval house, built mainly in 1310, and completely surrounded by its moat. It has been wonderfully little altered since, and is the most complete surviving medium-sized fourteenth century country house left in England.

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall

The finest medieval guildhall in Europe built 1357-61 and substantially unaltered. On the first floor is the magnificent timbered Great Hall where the Merchants transacted their business as their successors do today. On the ground floor was their hospice where they cared for the poor and their private chapel, a unique survival in England. There are good collections of paintings, furniture and silver and other objects used by the Merchants over the centuries.

Country house designed under the guidance of Sir Christopher Wren, is a fine example the Georgian ’Age of Elegance’. The contents of the house, collected on the ’Grand Tour’ include a rare set of Gobelins Tapestries, classical statuary and some of Chippendale’s finest furniture. There is 25 acres of award-winning gardens are a haven for both specialist and amateur gardeners alike. One of Europe’s longest double herbaceous borders with numerous formal compartmented gardens off. National Collection of Cornus (dogwoods).

Built in 1145, the Priory has been a family home since Tudor times. It contains a fine collection of portraits and furniture, detailing the history of the Wombwell family, who still live there. The house is also reputed to contain Oliver Cromwell's tomb. Spacious grounds with beautiful water gardens and rare alpines

Coxwold, YO61 4AS Tel: 01347 868435 Email

Norton Conyers

A mid 14th Century house with Tudor, Stuart and Georgian additions. It has been the home of the Graham family since 1624. The main rooms contain some fine 17th and 18th century furniture. There is a King James’s Room, where James II stayed in 1679 when he was Duke of York and has kept its 17th century appearance. There is a mid 18th century walled garden, which stands near the house, in about two acres. Herbaceous borders backed by yew hedges, lead to the garden’s central feature, a late 18th century Orangery.

Nr Ripon, HG4 5EQ Tel: 01765 640333

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Nunnington Hall

An English country house combining fine architechture with a wealth of art treasures in a park land setting in Yorkshire with acontemporary garden in Yorkshire, newly planted in the 4½ acre 18th Century walled garden at Scampston and opened to the public for the first time in 2004

An outstanding Neo-Georgian house built in 1913 and was one of the last important country houses to be built before the Great War. The house was designed by the renowned York Architect Walter H Brierley. The Hall contains the H W Mawer collection of fine furniture, porcelain, paintings, and clocks.

Stockeld Park

A well proportioned country mansion is set amidst an extensive rural estate of farms, woods and parklands on the edge of the Vale of York. It is one of the finest examples of the work of the celebrated architect James Paine and a splendid example of the Palladian style. The house was built for the Middleton family during the period 1758-63 and purchased in 1885 by Robert John Foster who was the great-grandson of John Foster who founded the Black Dyke Mills

Wetherby LS44 4AW Tel: 01937 586101

Sutton Park is a fine early-Georgian house set in beautiful gardens and parkland. The house stands on the edge of the village of Sutton which grew up in the Middle Ages to the north of York, in the ancient forest of Galtres

Named after the medieval Treasurers of York Minster and built over a Roman Road. Within the facade of a mainly 17th century house, furniture, decoration, glass and china from the 16th century to the 20th century can be discovered in a series of period rooms