Fawcett Collection (#2)

Downton Castle, Herefordshire, home of Baronet Boughton, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Toddington Park, Gloucestershire, home of Lord Sudeley, c1880. The Gothic Revival house was built between 1820 and 1835 for Charles Hanbury-Tracy, the first Lord Sudeley

Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire, home of the Vernon family, c1880. The house was designed in 1701 in William and Mary style by William Rudhall for Thomas Vernon

Westwood Park, Worcestershire, home of Lord Hampton, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, home of the Winn family, c1880. Built on the site of a medieval priory, the construction of this Palladian mansion was begun in 1733

Castle Forbes, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, home of Lord Forbes, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Dytchley House, Oxfordshire, home of Viscount Dillon, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

The Down House, Dorset, home of Baronet Smith-Marriott, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Lathom House, Lancashire, home of Lord Skelmersdale, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Cowdray Park, Sussex, home of the Earl of Egmont, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris

Dalkeith Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland, home of the Duke of Buccleuch, c1880. Dalkeith Palace was built in the early 18th century

Aldby Park, Yorkshire, home of the Darley family, c1880. The house was built in the 1720s. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain

West Wycombe House, Buckinghamshire, home of Baronet Dashwood, c1880. West Wycombe House was built between 1740 and 1800. It encapsulates several 18th century British architectural styles

Studley Royal, Yorkshire, home of the Marquess of Ripon, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Lanhydrock, Cornwall, home of Lord Robartes, c1880. Most of the house is Victorian, although parts of it date back to 1620

Glynde Place, Sussex, home of Viscount Hampden, c1880. Glynde Place is an Elizabethan manor house built by the in the 1560s

Longleat, home of the Marquess of Bath, Wiltshire, c1880. Designed by Robert Smythson, Longleat is regarded as one of the finest Elizabethan country houses in England

Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, home of Earl Fitzwilliam, c1880. A Baroque house built in the 18th century for the 1st Marquess of Rockingham

Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales, home of the Phillips family, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, home of the Dent family, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Howsham Hall, Yorkshire, home of the Cholmley family, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Castle Howard, Yorkshire, home of the Earl of Carlisle, c1880. Castle Howard was built between 1699 and 1712 to designs by John Vanbrugh

Wilton House, Wiltshire, home of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Harewood House, Yorkshire, home of the Earl of Harewood, c1880. John Carr and Robert Adam designed the house, built between 1759 and 1771

Windsor Castle, Berkshire, the Royal residence, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris

Badminton House, Gloucestershire, home of the Duke of Beaufort, c1880. Badminton has been the seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the 17th century

Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire, home of the Earl of Essex, c1880. The house was remodelled by James Wyatt for the 5th Earl in the 1800s

Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, home of the Earl of Hardwicke, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Corsham Court, Wiltshire, home of Lord Methuen, c1880. The manor of Corsham Court was in royal hands supposedly from the days of Ethelred the Unready until the reign of Elizabeth I

Ugbrooke, Devon, home of Lord Clifford, c1880. The house and grounds were remodelled in the 18th century by Robert Adam and Capability Brown

Lowther Castle, Westmorland, home of the Earl of Lonsdale, c1880. This castellated mansion was designed by Robert Smirke and built between 1806 and 1814

Eden Hall, Cumberland, home of Baronet Musgrave, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris

Wytham Abbey, Oxfordshire, home of the Earl of Abingdon, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Penrhyn Castle, Caernarvonshire, Wales, home of Lord Penrhyn, c1880. Designed by Thomas Hopper in the style of a Norman Castle and built between 1820 and 1845

Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall, home of Lord Mount Edgcumbe, c1880. Built in the mid 16th century, the house was severely damaged by German bombing in World War II

Audley End, Essex, home of Lord Braybrooke, c1880. Audley End House stands on the site of Walden Abbey. The present house is a Jacobean mansion built in 1605-14 for the 1st Earl of Suffolk

Drakelowe Hall, Derbyshire, home of Baronet Gresley, c1880. The Elizabethan house was demolished in 1934 to make way for Drakelowe Power Station

Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, Scotland, home of the Duke of Sutherland, c1880. Dunrobin Castle was converted into a Scottish Baronial style house in the 1840s by Sir Charles Barry

Gopsal Hall, Leicestershire, home of Lord Howe, c1880. Designed by John Westley, this Georgian house was built in c1750. It served as a radar training establishment during World War II but was

Leeds Castle, Kent, home of the Wykeham-Martin family, c1880. Originally built in 1119 by Henry I, Leeds Castle was transformed by Henry VIII into a palace for his first wife, Catherine of Aragon

Combermere Abbey, Shropshire, home of Viscount Combermere, c1880. Originally a 12th century Cistercian monastery, Combermere Abbey was given to Sir George Cotton after the Dissolution of

Stowe Park, Buckinghamshiere, home of the Duke and Marquis of Buckingham and Chandos, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain

Clifton Hall, Nottinghamshire, home of Baronet Clifton, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Swithland Hall, Leicestershire, home of the Earl of Lanesborough, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Worsley Hall, Lancashire, home of the Earl of Ellesmere, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, home of the Marquis of Cholmondeley, c1880. Built in the 1800s to resemble a Gothic castle, with crenellated towers added in 1817-1819 by Robert Smirke

Taymouth Castle, Perthshire, Scotland, home of the Earl of Breadalbane, c1880. The castle was built in Gothic Revival style in the early 19th century

Melbury House, Dorset, home of the Earl of Ilchester, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

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