One of the last great homes to be built in the flamboyant Jacobean style, the mansion which was built between 1618 and 1635 for Sir Thomas Holte. Aston Hall has been displayed as a country house museum since the 1940s. It houses the major part of Birmingham…
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14.7 miles
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Himley Hall was a moated manor house, which stood next to the medieval church and village. Himley Hall, situated between Kingswinford and Wombourne, started life in the 18th century when a medieval manor house on the site belonging to the Earl of Dudley was demolished to make…
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14 miles
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Robert Hooke designed Ragley in 1680. The Eighth Marquess of Hertford saw Graham Rust at work on a mural in Virginia and decided that he was the ideal artist to decorate the bare walls and ceilings of Ragley's South Staircase Hall. The Temptation was designed and…
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11.7 miles
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Soho House Museum was the home of Matthew Boulton, one of Birmingham's most famous sons. Boulton is famous for his associations with James Watt and the Lunar Society and left his mark on industrial development in Birmingham. The house has been painstakingly restored to its Eighteenth…
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13.5 miles
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A romantic garden set in an old walled kitchen garden. The area is only 1 acre but seems much larger‐ hedges divide it into different compartments and create diverse habitats in which to grow the vast selection of rare and unusual plants that thrive here. Unusual…
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6.3 miles
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Now a spectacular ruin, 100 years ago Witley Court was one of the great Victorian country houses of England. Witley Court is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building with work by John Nash and Samuel Dukes. The site includes 16 other connected Grade…
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11.8 miles
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