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stately home

NOUN
  1. a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family

How To Use stately home In A Sentence

  • Around 140 luxury homes are being built around the course as part of a deal to save one of Ireland's great stately homes from dereliction.
  • The eventual aim is to restore Swindon's stately home to its former Georgian glory.
  • The stately home on the Richmond riverside is said to be haunted by the ghost of Lady Laurderdale, who lived there during the 1670s.
  • There are dozens of stately homes dating from the beginning of the twentieth century; most of which are in impeccable condition. Henequen and its role in the Yucatan's shifting fortunes
  • Stately homes, luxury country pads, five-star hotels and even budget youth hostels are lining up to provide race fans accommodation.
  • Tents are essentially small stately homes under canvas - teak furniture, proper beds, flush WCs, bucket showers, laundry service.
  • Today tying the knot is back in fashion, although the ceremony is as likely to take place in a stately home as a church.
  • Gardeners serving at stately homes in Yorkshire originated the tradition of forcing rhubarb into growth.
  • R&D unit - which has brought us Nicam, Teletext, DAB, colour TV - celebrated its sixtieth birthday in August but faced a staff revolt over plans to move from its stately home at Kingswood Warren, Surrey, in to White City, London. MocoNews
  • Every garden can teach us something, she says, whether it's the splendid formal grounds of a stately home or the riotous richness of a cottage potager.
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