Palaces, Chateaux, Country Houses

With a foreword by Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey who concludes that: 'This is the world that Ruth Binney has brought so wonderfully to ...

Ranging from Kentchurch Court, a former fortified medieval manor house that has been the seat of the Scudamore family for nearly 1,000 years, to a ...

A royal palace for over 500 years, Holyroodhouse is The Queen's official Scottish residence. It has been home to Mary, Queen of Scots, and Bonnie P...

Built to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatious of buildings fall into dis...

The castles and other properties owned and managed by the National Trust for Scotland are precious jewels in the crown of the nations heritage. Ens...

Following the success of Abandoned Mansions of Ireland, Tarquin Blake documents the crumbling ruins of more forgotten stately homes, such as Elsino...

Castles and palaces around the world are structures of grandeur, might and beauty. From the flamboyance of Germany's fairy tale-Neuschwanstein Cast...

Grand, awe-inspiring and beautiful, the `Big House'''' is widely viewed as a jewel in the Irish landscape today. Despite this, the relationship bet...

Chinese wallpaper has been an important element of western interior decoration for three hundred years. As trade between Europe and China flourishe...

2 books in slipcase. A history and description of The Palace of Christian VII at the royal castle, Amalienborg, in Copenhagen.