Historical Houses

A trip to a stately home is always a wonderful day out. Educational as well as pleasurable, a chance to admire sumptuous interiors and breathtaking exteriors, to walk in the shadow of our wealthier ancestors and to appreciate nature at its most cultivated and tranquil in sweeping acres of parkland.

Lincolnshire’s affluence throughout the ages has left it with some of the most striking, opulent residences in the country.

Burghley House, a Tudor mansion built by Queen Elizabeth’s Lord High Treasurer in the 1500s. Eat at the Orangery Restaurant, wander round the Gardens of Surprise and explore historic parkland laid out by famous landscape architect Capability Brown, still occupied by a herd of fallow deer.

Belvoir Castle sits in a romantic hilltop rural countryside setting. It’s been the home of the Manners family for five hundred years, and seat of the dukes of Rutland for over three centuries. The castle’s lavish stately rooms are open to the public and contain many works of art.

Gainsborough Old Hall is a unique medieval manor house – one of the best preserved in England. Rich, flamboyant Sir Thomas Burgh built it between 1460 and 1480 and it remains much as he left it, to the delight of thousands of visitors each year.

Gunby Hall is a handsome red-brick house dating back to 1700, with Victorian walled gardens, a place Tennyson described as a “haunt of ancient peace.”

Alford Manor House built in 1611 is of significant architectural importance due to its wooden frame with reed and plaster walls. The house underwent a huge restoration project between 2003-2006 and is reputedly the largest thatched house in England.

Normanby Hall in North Lincolnshire is set in 300 acres of beautiful parkland, woodland and pleasure grounds. Admire the stunning herbaceous borders in the Secret and Sunken Gardens, and step back in time in the award winning Victorian walled kitchen garden with its wall-trained fruit and full range of glasshouses including a peach case and vinery

Another testament to the immense ability of Capability Brown is Grimsthorpe Castle, the 13th century stone centrepiece lies within a 3,000 acre park of rolling pastures, lakes, and woodland.

Last but not least, Belton House is such a picture-perfect example of an English country house, so much so that its façade is cited as the principal inspiration for the symbol denoting state.

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