So, pick a house, pop on your winter layers and get in the festive mood by visiting a stately home that’s fully decked out for Christmas. Here are some of Britain’s best. Holkham Hall ...

Stately homes weren’t mere houses ... with the aardvarks – allow even closer encounters. Visit: Limited winter opening; from ...

Many National Trust properties are "put to bed" in the winter months ... more glass than wall", because "all three storeys of the stately home are almost entirely dominated by windows", said ...

Badminton is undoubtedly one of the UK’s most striking stately homes, one that nearly every ... and a particularly cosy winter bolthole with two open fires and four poster beds.

From a manor house set in acres of gardens and parkland to an Italianate Palace in the heart of Suffolk, here are the best stately homes in the county to visit this winter according to Tripadvisor.