List of family seats of English nobility

This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.

Seats of current members of the British Royal Family

Primary titlePrincipal Seat
The QueenBuckingham Palace, London; Windsor Castle, Berkshire
Prince of WalesClarence House, London
Duke of CambridgeKensington Palace, London
Duke of YorkRoyal Lodge, Berkshire
Earl of WessexBagshot Park, Surrey
The Princess RoyalGatcombe Park, Gloucestershire
Duke of GloucesterKensington Palace, London
Duke of KentKensington Palace, London
Princess Alexandra, The Hon. Lady OgilvyThatched House Lodge, London

Family seats of English peers

Dukes

Primary titleFamily seatFormer seats
Duke of NorfolkArundel Castle, Sussex and Carlton Towers, YorkshireFramlingham Castle, Bungay Castle, Clun Castle, Norfolk House
Duke of SomersetMaiden Bradley, Wiltshire and Berry Pomeroy Castle, DevonBulstrode Park
Duke of RichmondGoodwood House, Sussex
Duke of GraftonEuston Hall, Suffolk
Duke of St AlbansBestwood
Duke of BeaufortBadminton House, GloucestershireRaglan Castle
Duke of BedfordWoburn Abbey, Bedfordshire
Duke of DevonshireChatsworth House, Derbyshire, Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, and Lismore Castle, County WaterfordLondesborough Hall, Hardwick Hall, Chiswick House, Devonshire House, Burlington House
Duke of MarlboroughBlenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
Duke of RutlandBelvoir Castle, Leicestershire and Haddon Hall, Derbyshire
Duke of ManchesterKimbolton Castle, Tandragee Castle
Duke of NorthumberlandAlnwick Castle, Northumberland and Syon House, LondonWarkworth Castle, Prudhoe Castle, Kielder Castle, Northumberland House, Stanwick Park, Albury Park
Duke of WellingtonStratfield Saye House, Hampshire and Apsley House, London
Duke of WestminsterEaton Hall, Cheshire and Abbeystead House, LancashireGrosvenor House

Marquesses

Primary titleFamily seatFormer seats
Marquess of WinchesterBasing House
Marquess of LansdowneBowood House, WiltshireLansdowne House
Marquess TownshendRaynham Hall, Norfolk
Marquess of SalisburyHatfield House, Hertfordshire and Cranborne Manor, Dorset
Marquess of BathLongleat House, Wiltshire
Marquess of HertfordRagley Hall, Warwickshire
Marquess of ExeterBurghley House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire
Marquess of NorthamptonCastle Ashby, Northamptonshire and Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire
Marquess of RockinghamWentworth Woodhouse, South YorkshireRockingham Castle
Marquess CamdenWherwell House, HampshireBayham Abbey Estate, near Lamberhurst
Marquess of CholmondeleyHoughton Hall, Norfolk and Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire
Marquess of AilesburyTottenham House
Marquess of BristolIckworth House
Marquess of NormanbyMulgrave Castle, Yorkshire
Marquess of AbergavennyEridge Park, Sussex
Marquess of ZetlandAske Hall, Yorkshire
Marquess of ReadingJaynes Court, near Bisley, Gloucestershire

Earls

Primary titleFamily seatFormer seats
Earl of AylesfordPackington Hall, Warwickshire
Earl Baldwin of BewdleyManor Farm House, OxfordshireAstley Hall
Earl of BalfourBurpham Lodge, SussexWhittingehame House
Earl BathurstCirencester House, GloucestershirePaulspury, Northamptonshire
Earl of BradfordWeston Park, ShropshireCastle Bromwich Hall
Earl of BuckinghamshireHampden House
Earl CadoganCulford Park
Earl CairnsBolehyde Manor, Wiltshire
Earl of CarlisleNaworth Castle, Cumberland and Castle Howard, Yorkshire
Earl of CarnarvonHighclere Castle, Hampshire
Earl CathcartGateley Hall, Norfolk
Earl of ChichesterLittle Durnford Manor, WiltshireStanmer House
Earl of ClarendonHolywell House, HampshireThe Grove
Earl of CottenhamPriory Manor, Wiltshire
Earl of CoventryCroome Court
Earl of CranbrookGreat Glemham House, Suffolk
Earl of CravenHawkwood House, SussexHamstead Marshall Park, Ashdown Park, Coombe Abbey
Earl of CromerDrayton Court, Somerset
Earl of DartmouthWoodsome Hall, West YorkshireSandwell Hall, Patshull Hall
Earl De La WarrBuckhurst Park, SussexBourn Hall
Earl of DenbighNewnham Paddox, Warwickshire |
Earl of DerbyKnowsley Hall, MerseysideGreenhalgh Castle
Earl of DevonPowderham Castle, DevonTiverton Castle, Colcombe Castle
Earl of DucieTalbots End Farm, near Cromhall, GloucestershireTortworth Court, Spring Park
Earl of DudleyDudley House, Witley Court, Himley Hall, Dudley Castle
Earl of DurhamLambton Castle, DurhamFenton, near Wooler, Northumberland
Earl of EffinghamReadings Farmhouse, Essex
Earl of EssexCassiobury House
Earl FerrersDitchingham Hall, Norfolk
Earl FortescueEbrington Manor, Gloucestershire[[Castle Hill, Filleigh|Castle Hill]
Earl of GainsboroughExton Hall, Rutland
Earl GreyHowick Hall, Fallodon Hall
Earl of GuilfordWaldershare House, Kent
Earl of HalifaxGarrowby Hall, Yorkshire
Earl of HarewoodHarewood House, YorkshireGoldsborough Hall
Earl of HarringtonElvaston Castle, Harrington House, Gawsworth Hall
Earl of HarrowbySandon Hall, Staffordshire
Earl HowePenn House, Buckinghamshire
Earl of IddesleighHayne House, Devon and Shillands House, Devon
Earl of IlchesterFarley Mill, KentMelbury House
Earl of IveaghElveden Hall, SuffolkIveagh House
Earl JellicoeTidcombe Manor, Wiltshire
Earl of JerseyRadier Manor, JerseyMiddleton Park, Osterley Park
Earl of KimberleyHailstone House, Wiltshire
Earl of LeicesterHolkham Hall, Norfolk
Earl of LichfieldShugborough House, Staffordshire
Earl of LincolnClumber House, Boyton Manor
Earl of LonsdaleThrimby, WestmorlandLowther Castle, Askham Hall
Earl of LyttonNewbuildings Place, SussexKnebworth House
Earl of MacclesfieldShirburn Castle
Earl of MalmesburyGreywell Hill House, HampshireHeron Court
Earl of MorleyPound House, DevonSaltram House
Earl Mountbatten of BurmaBroadlands, near Romsey, Hampshire and Newhouse Manor, near Ashford, KentClassiebawn Castle
Earl of Mount EdgcumbeEmpacombe House, CornwallMount Edgcumbe House
Earl of OnslowClandon Park
Earl of Oxford (Title Dormant)Castle Hedingham, Essex
Earl of Oxford and Earl MortimerBrampton Bryan Hall, Eywood House
Earl of Oxford and AsquithMells Manor, Somerset
Earl PeelElmire House, Yorkshire
Earl of PembrokeWilton House, WiltshirePembroke Castle
Earl of PlymouthOakly Park, ShropshireHewell Grange
Earl of PortlandWelbeck Abbey
Earl of PortsmouthHurstbourne Park, Hampshire
Earl of RadnorLongford Castle, Wiltshire and Alward House, Wiltshire
Earl of RomneyGayton Hall, NorfolkMote Park
Earl of SandwichMapperton House, DorsetHinchingbrooke House
Earl of ScarbroughSandbeck Park, Yorkshire and Lumley Castle, County DurhamTickhill Castle
Earl of SelborneTemple Manor, Hampshire
Earl of ShaftesburyAshley House, Dorset
Earl of ShrewsburyWanfield Hall, StaffordshireAlton Castle, Alton Towers, Barlow Woodseats Hall, Grafton Manor, Heythrop Park, Ingestre Hall
Earl SpencerAlthorp House, Northamptonshire and Spencer House, London
Earl St AldwynWilderstrip House, Gloucestershire
Earl of St GermansPort Eliot, Cornwall
Earl of StradbrokeHenham Park, Suffolk
Earl of StraffordApple Tree Cottage, HampshireWrotham Park
Earl of SuffolkCharlton Park, Wiltshire
Earl of SwintonDykes Hill House, Yorkshire
Earl of TankervilleChillingham Castle
Earl of VerulamGorhambury House, Hertfordshire
Earl WaldegraveChewton House, SomersetHever Castle
Earl of WarwickWarwick Castle
Earl of WestmorlandRaby Castle, Apethorpe Palace, Mereworth Castle
Earl of WharncliffeWortley Hall
Earl of WinchelseaKirby Hall, NorthamptonshireEastwell Park
Earl of YarboroughBrocklesby House, Lincolnshire

Viscounts

Primary titleFamily seatFormer seats
Viscount AddisonChurn Barn, Huntingdonshire
Viscount AllenbyNewnham Lodge, Hampshire
Viscount AllendaleBywell Hall, Northumberland and Stocksfield Hall, NorthumberlandBretton Hall
Viscount AstorGinge Manor, Oxfordshire
Viscount BearstedFarley Hall, Hampshire
Viscount BledisloeLydney Park, Gloucestershire
Viscount BolingbrokeLydiard House and Bolingbroke House
Viscount Boyd of MertonInce Castle, Cornwall
Viscount BrentfordCousley Place, Sussex
Viscount BridgemanWatley House, Hampshire
Viscount BuckmasterRyece Hall, Suffolk
Viscount ChilstonThe Old Rectory, Hampshire
Viscount CobhamHagley Hall, Worcestershire
Viscount CombermereCombermere Abbey
Viscount CowdrayCowdray House
Viscount DaventryArbury Hall, Warwickshire
Viscount De L'IslePenshurst Place, Kent
Viscount DevonportRay Demesne, Northumberland
Viscount DilhorneThe Dower House, Dorset
Viscount EcclesMoulton Hall, Yorkshire
Viscount EsherBeauforest House, Oxfordshire
Viscount ExmouthCanonteign House
Viscount FalmouthTregothnan, Cornwall
Viscount GoschenHilton House, Berkshire
Viscount HailshamKettlethorpe Hall, Lincolnshire
Viscount HampdenGlynde Place, Sussex
Viscount HanworthHanworth Park
Viscount HardingeBroadmere House, Hampshire
Viscount HeadThroope Manor, Wiltshire
Viscount HerefordHampton Court, Herefordshire and Castle Bromwich Hall
Viscount HillHawkstone Hall
Viscount HoodLoders Court, Dorset
Viscount KemsleyChurch Hill Farm, Hampshire
Viscount KnollysBramerton Hall, Norfolk
Viscount KnutsfordMunden House, Hertfordshire
Viscount LongOwles Hall, Hertfordshire
Viscount MarchwoodThe Filberts
Viscount MelvilleWey House, Somerset
Viscount MerseyBignor Park, Sussex
Viscount PortmanBryanston House
Viscount RidleyBlagdon Hall, Northumberland
Viscount RothermereFerne House, Wiltshire
Viscount SidmouthHighway Manor, WiltshireUpottery Manor
Viscount ScarsdaleKedleston Hall, Derbyshire
Viscount StansgateStansgate House, Essex
Viscount TrenchardStandon Lordship, Hertfordshire
Viscount TorringtonGreat Hunts Place, Hampshire
Viscount WimborneCanford Manor, Ashby St Ledgers Manor House, and Wimbourne House


Barons

Primary titleFamily seatFormer seats
Baron BagotBlithfield Hall, Staffordshire
Baron BarnardRaby Castle, Durham
Baron BenyonEnglefield House, Berkshire
Baron BoltonBolton Hall, Yorkshire
Baron BraybrookeAudley End, Essex
Baroness BrayeStanford Hall, Leicestershire
Baron CamoysStonor Park, Oxfordshire
Baron CarringtonWycombe Abbey
Baron Cavendish of FurnessHolker Hall, Cumbria
Baron Clifford of ChudleighUgbrooke Park, Devon
Baron DigbyMinterne House, Dorset
Baron DudleyDudley Castle and Himley Hall
Baron EgremontPetworth House, East Sussex
Baron FevershamDuncombe Park, Yorkshire
Baron FitzWalterGoodnestone Park, Kent
Baron HarrisBelmont House, Kent
Baron HastingsSeaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland
Baron HillingdonLound Hall, Bothamsall
Baron Howard of RisingCastle Rising
Baron HyltonAmmerdown House, Kilmersdon, Somerset
Baron JermynRushbrooke Hall, Suffolk
Baron LeighStoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire
Baron MethuenCorsham Court, Wiltshire
Baron Mowbray, Segrave and StourtonAllerton Castle, YorkshireStourhead and Roundhay Park
Baron PetreIngatestone Hall, Essex and Writtle Park, Essex
Baron RavensworthEslington Park, Northumberland
Baron RayleighTerling Place, Essex
Baron RennellThe Rodd, Herefordshire
Baron SandysOmbersley Court, Worcestershire
Baron de SaumarezSaumarez Manor, Guernsey
Baron Saye and SeleBroughton Castle, Oxfordshire
Baron StaffordSwynnerton Hall, Staffordshire
Baron TeynhamPylewell Park, Hampshire
Baroness Willoughby de EresbyGrimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire

Family seats of English baronets and gentry

Family name or titleFamily seat
Arden familyPark Hall, Castle Bromwich, West Midlands
Babington familyPackington Hall, Staffordshire; Rothley Court, Leicestershire; Dethick Manor, Derbyshire
Barrett-Lennard baronetsBelhus, Essex
Biddulph baronetsElmhurst Hall, Staffordshire
Bidlake familyGreat Bidlake Manor, Devon
Blackett baronetsMatfen Hall, Northumberland
Blois familyCockfield Hall, Suffolk
Bulmer familyWilton Castle, Redcar and Cleveland
Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy baronetsCharlecote Park, Warwickshire
Clitherow familyBoston Manor, London (formerly)
Coates familyCoates Manor, West Sussex
Corbet familyMoreton Corbet Castle, Shropshire
Davers baronetsRushbrooke Hall, Suffolk
Dering baronetsSurrenden Dering, Kent
Dormer familyRousham House, Oxfordshire
Fettiplace familyCompton Beauchamp House, Oxfordshire
FitzHerbert familyTissington Hall, Derbyshire
Fulford familyGreat Fulford Manor, Devon
Gage baronetsHengrave Hall, Suffolk
Gascoigne baronetsLotherton Hall, West Yorkshire
Gough familyPerry Hall, Birmingham
Gosling family Hassobury, Essex
Greene baronetsNether Hall, Suffolk
Gresley baronetsDrakelowe Hall, Derbyshire
Grindlay family Bordeshale Manor, Warwickshire
Hervey-Bathurst familyEastnor Castle, Herefordshire
Ingleby baronetsRipley Castle, Yorkshire
Kingsbury familyKingsbury Hall, Warwickshire
Lemon baronetsCarclew House, Cornwall
Lupton familyPotternewton Hall, West Yorkshire
Mander familyThe Mount, Tettenhall Wood, West Midlands
Manningham-Buller baronetsDilhorne Hall, Staffordshire
Money-Kyrle family of WhethamWhetham House, Calne, Wiltshire
Mills-Everist familyLound Hall, Nottinghamshire
Ogle familyKirkley Hall, Northumberland
Palmes familyNaburn Hall, City of York
Pennington familyMuncaster Castle, Cumbria
Perkins family of UftonUfton Court, Berkshire
Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of CharboroughCharborough House, Charborough Park, Dorset
Pye FamilyLeckhampstead House, Berkshire
Roper-Curzon FamilyHyde, Charlton, Bradford, Pylewell Park, Candelwick, Galway Estates, Trimdon Estates, Saint Dunstans, Chestfeild, Cheselherst, Brambiltighe, Modingham, Kent Estates, Kedleston Hall[1][2][3][4][5]
Rose baronetsHardwick House, Oxfordshire
Selby familyBiddlestone Hall, Northumberland
Shelton familyShelton Hall, Norfolk
Sitwell baronetsWeston Hall, Northamptonshire (formerly Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire)
Smalbroke familyBlakesley Hall, Birmingham
Spencer-Stanhope familyCannon Hall, South Yorkshire
Spring familyPakenham Hall, Suffolk
Standish baronetsDuxbury Hall, Lancashire
Strachey baronetsSutton Court, Somerset
Strickland baronetsBoynton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire
Strickland family of SizerghSizergh Castle, Cumbria
Tempest familyStella Hall, County Durham
Throckmorton baronetsCoughton Court, Warwickshire
Tollemache familyHelmingham Hall, Suffolk
Towneley familyTowneley Hall, Lancashire
de Trafford baronetsCroston Hall, Lancashire
Trevelyan baronetsWallington Hall, Northumberland
Verney familyClaydon House, Buckinghamshire
Vernon familyHaddon Hall, Derbyshire
Wrightson familyCusworth Hall, South Yorkshire
[6]Gosling family Hassobury, Farnham

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