STATELY SPLENDOUR

Britain boasts an impressive array of historic houses, surrounded by sweeping parkland and formal gardens. Read on for a cherry-picked selection of our favourites – and the stately home events not to miss in 2025

Highclere Castle, Hampshire With the third Downton Abbey movie due for release in September 2025, there’s never been a better time for a visit to ‘the Real Downton’, Highclere Castle. Not that we need an excuse: this beautiful ancestral home is one of Britain’s finest. It has been the family seat of the Earls of Carnarvon since 1679, though its history stretches back centuries further. In 749 an Anglo-Saxon King granted the estate to the Bishops of Winchester, who built a stately medieval palace on the parkland here. Various rebuildings and developments later (including the landscaping of the grounds by Capability Brown), in 1842 it was transformed by Sir Charles Barry, architect of the Houses of Parliament, into the Italianate gem you can admire today. The twists and turns in…

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