stately home

Example Sentences

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Roy Porter’s kaleidoscopic portrait of 18th-century England captures high and low society, from stately home to poor tenement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

The BBC has tracked fighting kennels to unlikely places in the UK – from a busy housing estate to the grounds of a stately home.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

A former US filmmaker has launched a High Court battle against an English council to gain control of the ancestral stately home he spent seven years trying to save from ruin.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2025

An Exeter University art historian has solved the 70-year mystery over the theft of an original oil sketch, by Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, from a stately home in Northamptonshire.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025

In the distance, perched on a low rise, was an elegant, stately home with long windows and multiple chimneys.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys