Topics: Houses : Country
A country house is defined here as a house set in a country estate and serving as a residence for the estate owner. Houses called castles or the equivalent in other languages, but which are not fortified, are included.
Neo-Classical
The term is used here to refer to the revival of pure Classical architecture starting in late 17th-century France and early 18th-century England and spreading to the rest of Europe, North America and other European colonies, and continuing into the early 20th century.
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United Kingdom
Those mansions originally built for the aristocracy and gentry and set now or originally in the countryside.
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