High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is intended to be as full a list as possible of historic/country houses, stately homes and estates, manors, and mansions in the United Kingdom; anything of historical architectural note which was used as a residence by a noble family or persons of esteem in history. This may include smaller castles, palaces, old abbeys and priories which may at one time have been used as a noble residence, including those which are now within urban areas but retain the appearance of a country house in style and with extensive gardens.