The following six historic homes offer spectacularly luxurious "upstairs" rooms and fascinating glimpses of the "downstairs" servants' quarters. And what about the real Downton Abbey? Highclere ...

Ian Mortimer: Take almost any painting from Elizabethan England and what do ... the people around them - the villagers and their own servants. They practically own and run the whole country.

A Lord has rued the fact his grandfather did not realise a painting which hung in the servants' quarters and was sold 'for a few shillings' was actually a Botticelli masterpiece worth £67million.

The current Kings Weston House was built between 1710 and 1723 on the site of an Elizabethan manor house ... 12 of which would have been servants quarters - Kings Weston House has some unique ...

The basements of an Elizabethan stately home in Yorkshire ... Council for permission to convert the kitchens and servants’ quarters beneath the Grade II-listed mansion into a bar and dancefloor ...

As the biggest gathering of royals for decades descends on her Norfolk country retreat this week, some will have to sleep in cramped servants’ quarters. Staff will have to either share bedrooms ...

19 December 2011 • 9:05am However, faced with the dilemma of how to accommodate all the guests at the Norfolk estate, many of those attending will have to sleep in the servants’ quarters ...