Secret Houses of the Cotswolds

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8 Daneway House, near Sapperton, is a fourteenth century manor house and a 1670s short tower, admired and restored by early twenty-century arts and crafts idealists, Ernest Gimson and Sidney Barnsley; it has been admired by artists and writers ever since.
9 Duns Tew Manor is a lovely example of a smaller classical early eighteenth-century Cotswolds house, recently remodelled and extended, with a seventeenth-century dovecote and extensive new gardens, to create a comfortable family houses for the twenty-first century.
10 Frampton Court, a handsome and little altered 1730s classical house, with a part-baroque, part-Palladian character, a centre block with pavilions wings, built for the same family who own it now, landowners in this place since the twelfth century,
11 Hilles House, the Arts and Crafts hilltop home near Painswick designed by the arts and crafts architect Detmar Blow for himself, still lived in by the Blow family, and made famous by the late Issie Blow, fashion guru.
12 Hillside Farm is a new country house on the edge of the Oxfordshire village of Adlestrop, built for a family to designs by Craig Hamilton, in a neo-classical style, with interiors of a modern lightness and home to a collection of modern art
13 Notgrove Manor, a little known manor house and estate village, with extensive gardens, owned by the Acland family, and hidden away in a remote bowl valley
14 Owlpen Manor is the ideal small medieval and Tudor manor house of the Cotswolds district, lovingly restored by Sir Nicholas and Lady Mander since the 1970s, with its remarkable terraced gardens dating to the early eighteenth century.
15 Sarsden House, a 1680s house extended and remodelled in phases in the early nineteenth-century, by Humhrey and George Repton; recently restored by Tony and Rita Gallagher, and previously the home of MP Sean Woodward.
16 Stanway House, a romantic medieval and Jacobean manor house, remodelled in the 1720s, and still in the hands of the family who have owned it since the sixteenth century, the home of the Earl of Wemyss, who has recently restored the eighteenth-century water garden and single jet fountain of 300ft.
17 Sudeley Castle, once home to Queen Katherine Parr, the surviving wife of King Henry VIII, it had become ruinous before being restored by the Dent-Brocklehurst family in the nineteenth century, the current chatelaine Lady Ashcombe has carried out a major restoration. Sudeley is one of the inspirations for Wodehouse's Blandings Castle.
18 Upton House, near Tetbury was built in the 1730s, and is one of the finest classical houses of the Cotswolds, where Kenneth Clark hosted artists in the second world war; recently restored and extended by Roger Seelig it epitomises an English ideal.
19 Wardington Manor a handsome gabled, originally early seventeenth-century manor house near Banbury restored after a major fire in 2004 and now owned by the Elworthy family, and the base of Bridget Elworthy's 'Land Gardeners'.
20 Wormington Grange, near Broadway, was begun in the 1770s, with a new neo-classical entrance front added in the 1820s, to form a stately country house, now home of furniture expert John Evetts , who has formed a collection of pictures for the house.