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 title	Principal Seat
The King	Buckingham Palace, London; Windsor Castle, Berkshire
Prince of Wales	Adelaide Cottage, Windsor
Duke of York	Royal Lodge, Berkshire
Duke of Edinburgh	Bagshot Park, Surrey
The Princess Royal	Gatcombe Park, Gloucestershire
Duke of Gloucester	Kensington Palace, London
Duke of Kent	Kensington Palace, London
Prince Michael of Kent	Kensington Palace, London
Princess Alexandra, The Hon. Lady Ogilvy	Thatched House Lodge, London

Family seats of British peers

Dukes (other than royal dukes)

Primary title	Family seat	Former seats
Duke of Norfolk	Arundel Castle, Sussex and Carlton Towers, Yorkshire	Framlingham Castle, Bungay Castle, Clun Castle, Norfolk House, Worksop Manor
Duke of Somerset	Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire and Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon	Bulstrode Park
Duke of Richmond	Goodwood House, Sussex	Gordon Castle, Richmond House
Duke of Grafton	Euston Hall, Suffolk
Duke of St Albans		Bestwood Lodge
Duke of Beaufort	Badminton House, Gloucestershire	Raglan Castle
Duke of Bedford	Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire
Duke of Devonshire	Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, and Lismore Castle, County Waterford	Londesborough Hall, Hardwick Hall, Chiswick House, Devonshire House, Burlington House
Duke of Marlborough	Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire	Marlborough House
Duke of Rutland	Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire and Haddon Hall, Derbyshire
Duke of Manchester		Kimbolton Castle, Tandragee Castle
Duke of Northumberland	Alnwick Castle, Northumberland and Syon House, London	Warkworth Castle, Prudhoe Castle, Kielder Castle, Northumberland House, Stanwick Park, Albury Park
Duke of Wellington	Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire and Apsley House, London
Duke of Westminster	Eaton Hall, Cheshire and Abbeystead House, Lancashire	Grosvenor House

Marquesses

Primary title	Family seat	Former seats
Marquess of Winchester		Basing House
Marquess of Lansdowne	Bowood House, Wiltshire	Lansdowne House
Marquess Townshend	Raynham Hall, Norfolk
Marquess of Salisbury	Hatfield House, Hertfordshire and Cranborne Manor, Dorset
Marquess of Bath	Longleat House, Wiltshire
Marquess of Hertford	Ragley Hall, Warwickshire	Dorchester House, Hertford House
Marquess of Exeter	Burghley House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire
Marquess of Northampton	Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire and Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire
Marquess of Rockingham		Rockingham Castle, Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire
Marquess Camden	Wherwell House, Hampshire	Bayham Abbey Estate, near Lamberhurst
Marquess of Cholmondeley	Houghton Hall, Norfolk and Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire
Marquess of Ailesbury		Tottenham House
Marquess of Bristol		Ickworth House
Marquess of Normanby	Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire
Marquess of Abergavenny	Eridge Park, Sussex
Marquess of Zetland	Aske Hall, Yorkshire
Marquess of Reading		Jaynes Court, near Bisley, Gloucestershire

Earls

Primary title	Family seat	Former seats
Earl of Aylesford	Packington Hall, Warwickshire
Earl Baldwin of Bewdley	Manor Farm House, Oxfordshire	Astley Hall
Earl of Balfour	Burpham Lodge, Sussex	Whittingehame House
Earl Bathurst	Cirencester House, Gloucestershire	Paulspury, Northamptonshire
Earl of Bradford	Weston Park, Shropshire	Castle Bromwich Hall
Earl of Buckinghamshire		Hampden House
Earl Cadogan		Culford Park
Earl Cairns	Bolehyde Manor, Wiltshire
Earl of Carlisle	Naworth Castle, Cumberland and Castle Howard, Yorkshire
Earl of Carnarvon	Highclere Castle, Hampshire
Earl Cathcart	Gateley Hall, Norfolk
Earl of Chichester	Little Durnford Manor, Wiltshire	Stanmer House
Earl of Clarendon	Holywell House, Hampshire	The Grove
Earl of Cottenham	Priory Manor, Wiltshire
Earl of Coventry		Croome Court
Earl of Cranbrook	Great Glemham House, Suffolk
Earl of Craven	Hawkwood House, Sussex	Hamstead Marshall Park, Ashdown Park, Coombe Abbey
Earl of Cromer	Drayton Court, Somerset
Earl of Dartmouth	Woodsome Hall, West Yorkshire	Sandwell Hall, Patshull Hall
Earl De La Warr	Buckhurst Park, Sussex	Bourn Hall
Earl of Denbigh	Newnham Paddox, Warwickshire
Earl of Derby	Knowsley Hall, Merseyside	Greenhalgh Castle
Earl of Devon	Powderham Castle, Devon	Tiverton Castle, Colcombe Castle
Earl of Ducie	Talbots End Farm, near Cromhall, Gloucestershire	Tortworth Court, Spring Park
Earl of Dudley		Dudley House, Witley Court, Himley Hall, Dudley Castle
Earl of Durham	Lambton Castle, Durham	Fenton, near Wooler, Northumberland
Earl of Effingham	Readings Farmhouse, Essex
Earl of Essex		Cassiobury House
Earl Ferrers	Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk
Earl Fortescue	Ebrington Manor, Gloucestershire	Castle Hill
Earl of Gainsborough	Exton Hall, Rutland
Earl Grey		Howick Hall, Fallodon Hall
Earl of Guilford	Waldershare House, Kent
Earl of Halifax	Garrowby Hall, Yorkshire
Earl of Harewood	Harewood House, Yorkshire	Goldsborough Hall
Earl of Harrington		Elvaston Castle, Harrington House, Gawsworth Hall
Earl of Harrowby	Sandon Hall, Staffordshire
Earl Howe	Penn House, Buckinghamshire
Earl of Home	The Hirsel, Berwickshire
Earl of Iddesleigh	Hayne House, Devon and Shillands House, Devon
Earl of Ilchester	Farley Mill, Kent	Melbury House
Earl of Iveagh	Elveden Hall, Suffolk	Iveagh House
Earl Jellicoe	Tidcombe Manor, Wiltshire
Earl of Jersey	Radier Manor, Jersey	Middleton Park, Osterley Park
Earl of Kimberley	Hailstone House, Wiltshire
Earl of Leicester	Holkham Hall, Norfolk
Earl of Lichfield	Shugborough House, Staffordshire
Earl of Lincoln		Clumber House, Boyton Manor
Earl of Lonsdale	Thrimby, Westmorland	Lowther Castle, Askham Hall
Earl of Lytton	Newbuildings Place, Sussex	Knebworth House
Earl of Macclesfield		Shirburn Castle
Earl of Malmesbury	Greywell Hill House, Hampshire	Heron Court
Earl of Morley	Pound House, Devon	Saltram House
Earl Mountbatten of Burma	Broadlands, near Romsey, Hampshire and Newhouse Manor, near Ashford, Kent	Classiebawn Castle
Earl of Mount Edgcumbe	Empacombe House, Cornwall	Mount Edgcumbe House
Earl of Onslow		Clandon Park
Earl of Oxford (Title Dormant)		Castle Hedingham, Essex
Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer		Brampton Bryan Hall, Eywood House
Earl of Oxford and Asquith	Mells Manor, Somerset
Earl Peel	Elmire House, Yorkshire
Earl of Pembroke	Wilton House, Wiltshire	Pembroke Castle
Earl of Plymouth	Oakly Park, Shropshire	Hewell Grange
Earl of Portland		Welbeck Abbey
Earl of Portsmouth	Hurstbourne Park, Hampshire
Earl of Radnor	Longford Castle, Wiltshire and Alward House, Wiltshire
Earl of Romney	Gayton Hall, Norfolk	Mote Park
Earl of Sandwich	Mapperton House, Dorset	Hinchingbrooke House
Earl of Scarbrough	Sandbeck Park, Yorkshire and Lumley Castle, County Durham	Tickhill Castle
Earl of Selborne	Temple Manor, Hampshire
Earl of Shaftesbury	Ashley House, Dorset
Earl of Shrewsbury	Wanfield Hall, Staffordshire	Alton Castle, Alton Towers, Barlow Woodseats Hall, Grafton Manor, Heythrop Park, Ingestre Hall
Earl Spencer	Althorp House, Northamptonshire and Spencer House, London
Earl St Aldwyn	Wilderstrip House, Gloucestershire
Earl of St Germans	Port Eliot, Cornwall
Earl of Stradbroke	Henham Park, Suffolk
Earl of Strafford	Apple Tree Cottage, Hampshire	Wrotham Park
Earl of Suffolk	Charlton Park, Wiltshire
Earl of Swinton	Dykes Hill House, Yorkshire
Earl of Tankerville		Chillingham Castle
Earl of Verulam	Gorhambury House, Hertfordshire
Earl Waldegrave	Chewton House, Somerset	Hever Castle
Earl of Warwick		Warwick Castle
Earl of Westmorland		Raby Castle, Apethorpe Palace, Mereworth Castle
Earl of Wharncliffe		Wortley Hall
Earl of Winchelsea	Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire	Eastwell Park
Earl of Yarborough	Brocklesby House, Lincolnshire

Viscounts

Primary title	Family seat	Former seats
Viscount Addison	Churn Barn, Huntingdonshire
Viscount Allenby	Newnham Lodge, Hampshire
Viscount Allendale	Bywell Hall, Northumberland and Stocksfield Hall, Northumberland	Bretton Hall
Viscount Astor	Ginge Manor, Oxfordshire
Viscount Bearsted	Farley Hall, Hampshire
Viscount Bledisloe	Lydney Park, Gloucestershire
Viscount Bolingbroke		Lydiard House and Bolingbroke House
Viscount Boyd of Merton	Ince Castle, Cornwall
Viscount Brentford	Cousley Place, Sussex
Viscount Bridgeman	Watley House, Hampshire
Viscount Buckmaster	Ryece Hall, Suffolk
Viscount Chilston	The Old Rectory, Hampshire
Viscount Cobham	Hagley Hall, Worcestershire
Viscount Combermere		Combermere Abbey
Viscount Cowdray		Cowdray House
Viscount Daventry	Arbury Hall, Warwickshire
Viscount De L'Isle	Penshurst Place, Kent
Viscount Devonport	Ray Demesne, Northumberland
Viscount Dilhorne	The Dower House, Dorset
Viscount Eccles	Moulton Hall, Yorkshire
Viscount Esher	Beauforest House, Oxfordshire
Viscount Exmouth		Canonteign House
Viscount Falmouth	Tregothnan, Cornwall
Viscount Goschen	Hilton House, Berkshire
Viscount Hailsham	Kettlethorpe Hall, Lincolnshire
Viscount Hampden	Glynde Place, Sussex
Viscount Hanworth		Hanworth Park
Viscount Hardinge	Broadmere House, Hampshire
Viscount Head	Throope Manor, Wiltshire
Viscount Hereford		Hampton Court, Herefordshire and Castle Bromwich Hall
Viscount Hill		Hawkstone Hall
Viscount Hood	Loders Court, Dorset
Viscount Kemsley	Church Hill Farm, Hampshire
Viscount Knollys	Bramerton Hall, Norfolk
Viscount Knutsford	Munden House, Hertfordshire
Viscount Long	Owles Hall, Hertfordshire
Viscount Marchwood		The Filberts
Viscount Melville	Wey House, Somerset
Viscount Mersey	Bignor Park, Sussex
Viscount Portman		Bryanston House
Viscount Ridley	Blagdon Hall, Northumberland
Viscount Rothermere	Ferne House, Wiltshire
Viscount Sidmouth	Highway Manor, Wiltshire	Upottery Manor
Viscount Scarsdale	Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
Viscount Stansgate	Stansgate House, Essex
Viscount Trenchard	Standon Lordship, Hertfordshire
Viscount Torrington	Great Hunts Place, Hampshire
Viscount Wimborne	Craiganour Lodge, Perthshire	Canford Manor, Ashby St Ledgers Manor House, and Wimbourne House

Barons

Primary title	Family seat	Former seats
Baron Bagot	Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire
Baron Barnard	Raby Castle, Durham
Baron Benyon	Englefield House, Berkshire
Baron Bolton	Bolton Hall, Yorkshire
Baron Braybrooke	Audley End, Essex
Baroness Braye	Stanford Hall, Leicestershire
Baron Camoys	Stonor Park, Oxfordshire
Baron Carrington		Wycombe Abbey
Baron Cavendish of Furness	Holker Hall, Cumbria
Baron Clifford of Chudleigh	Ugbrooke Park, Devon
Baron Digby	Minterne House, Dorset
Baron Dudley		Dudley Castle and Himley Hall
Baron Egremont	Petworth House, East Sussex
Baron Feversham	Duncombe Park, Yorkshire
Baron FitzWalter	Goodnestone Park, Kent
Baron Harris	Belmont House, Kent
Baron Hastings	Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland
Baron Hillingdon	Lound Hall, Bothamsall
Baron Howard of Rising		Castle Rising
Baron Hylton	Ammerdown House, Kilmersdon, Somerset
Baron Jermyn	Rushbrooke Hall, Suffolk
Baron Leigh	Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire
Baron Macdonald	Armadale Castle, Skye	Finlaggan Castle, Loch Finlaggan
Baron Methuen	Corsham Court, Wiltshire
Baron Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton	Allerton Castle, Yorkshire	Stourhead and Roundhay Park
Baron Petre	Ingatestone Hall, Essex and Writtle Park, Essex
Baron Ravensworth	Eslington Park, Northumberland
Baron Rayleigh	Terling Place, Essex
Baron Rennell		The Rodd, Herefordshire
Baron Sandys	Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Baron de Saumarez	Saumarez Manor, Guernsey
Baron Saye and Sele	Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire
Baron Stafford	Swynnerton Hall, Staffordshire
Baron Teynham	Pylewell Park, Hampshire
Baroness Willoughby de Eresby	Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire
Baron Wynford	Wynford Eagle, Dorset

Family seats of British baronets and gentry

Family name or title	Family seat
Arden family	Park Hall, Castle Bromwich, West Midlands
Babington family	Packington Hall, Staffordshire; Rothley Court, Leicestershire; Dethick Manor, Derbyshire
Barrett-Lennard baronets	Belhus, Essex
Biddulph baronets	Elmhurst Hall, Staffordshire
Bidlake family	Great Bidlake Manor, Devon
Blackett baronets	Matfen Hall, Northumberland
Blois family	Cockfield Hall, Suffolk
Bowles family	Forty Hall, London
Bulmer family	Wilton Castle, Redcar and Cleveland
Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy baronets	Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
Clitherow family	Boston Manor House, London
Coates family	Coates Manor, West Sussex
Corbet family	Moreton Corbet Castle, Shropshire
Davers baronets	Rushbrooke Hall, Suffolk
Dering baronets	Surrenden Dering, Kent
Dormer family	Rousham House, Oxfordshire
Fettiplace family	Compton Beauchamp House, Oxfordshire
FitzHerbert family	Tissington Hall, Derbyshire
Fulford family	Great Fulford House, Devon
Gage baronets	Hengrave Hall, Suffolk
Gascoigne baronets	Lotherton Hall, West Yorkshire
Gough family	Perry Hall, Birmingham
Grant-Suttie Baronets	Balgone House, East Lothian, Scotland
Gosling family	Hassobury, Essex
Greene baronets	Nether Hall, Suffolk
Gresley baronets	Drakelow Hall, Derbyshire
Grindlay family	Bordeshale Manor, Warwickshire (See Bordesley Hall)
Hervey-Bathurst family	Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire
Ingleby baronets	Ripley Castle, Yorkshire
Kingsbury family	Kingsbury Hall, Warwickshire
Lemon baronets	Carclew House, Cornwall
Lupton family	Potternewton Hall, West Yorkshire
Mander family	The Mount, Tettenhall Wood, West Midlands
Manningham-Buller baronets	Dilhorne Hall, Staffordshire
More-Molyneux family	Loseley Park, Surrey
Mills-Everist family	Lound Hall, Nottinghamshire
Money-Kyrle family	Whetham House, Wiltshire
Ogle family	Kirkley Hall, Northumberland
Palmes family	Naburn Hall, City of York
Pennington family	Muncaster Castle, Cumbria
Perkins family of Ufton	Ufton Court, Berkshire
Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of Charborough	Charborough House, Charborough Park, Dorset
Pye family	Leckhampstead House, Berkshire
Rede/Reed family	Wrangle, Lincolnshire
Roper-Curzon Family	Pylewell Park, Hampshire
Rose baronets	Hardwick House, Oxfordshire
Selby family	Biddlestone Hall, Northumberland
Shelton family	Shelton Hall, Norfolk
Sitwell baronets	Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire and Weston Hall, Northamptonshire
Smalbroke family	Blakesley Hall, Birmingham
Spencer-Stanhope family	Cannon Hall, South Yorkshire
Spring family	Pakenham Hall, Suffolk
Standish baronets	Duxbury Hall, Lancashire
Strachey baronets	Sutton Court, Somerset
Strickland baronets	Boynton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire
Strickland family of Sizergh	Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
Sutton baronets	Benham Place, Berkshire
Tempest family	Stella Hall, County Durham
Throckmorton baronets	Coughton Court, Warwickshire
Tollemache family	Helmingham Hall, Suffolk
Towneley family	Towneley Hall, Lancashire
de Trafford baronets	Croston Hall, Lancashire
Trevelyan baronets	Wallington Hall, Northumberland
Verney family	Claydon House, Buckinghamshire
Vernon family	Haddon Hall, Derbyshire
Walker-Okeover baronets	Okeover Hall, Staffordshire
Wrightson family	Cusworth Hall, South Yorkshire
Gosling Gosling family	Hassobury, Farnham

See also

• List of family seats of Scottish nobility
• List of family seats of Irish nobility
• List of family seats of Welsh nobility

References

• John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England (Scott, Webster and Geary, London, 1838)
• Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time (Heritage Books, London, 1840)
• Charles Mosley (Ed.), Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons (107th Edition, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 2003)
• Burke's Landed Gentry (Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 1921)
• Charles Kidd (Ed.), Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2015 (149th Edition, Debrett's Ltd, London, 2014)
• Joel Stevens, Symbola heroica: or the mottoes of the nobility and baronets of Great-Britain and Ireland; placed alphabetically (1736)
• The daily telegraph,mad about the mansion,a review of hassobury manor (27 February 2005)