
Canons Ashby
Daventry, Northamptonshire
The estate was given to Sir Francis Bryan in 1537 after the Dissolution of the Monasteries and was bought the following year by Sir John Cope.

Coton Manor
Northampton, Northamptonshire
The house was erased to the ground during the Civil War and rebuilt in 1662 from stone taken from the nearby Holdenby Palace. In 1919, Murdo Munro bought Coton Grange Farm from the Boughton-Leigh family….

Cottesbrook Hall
Northampton, Northamptonshire
Cottesbrooke Hall was built between 1702 and 1711 and enlarged in the late eighteenth century by Robert Mitchell. Set in an eighteenth century park, the gardens were laid out in 1937 by Robert Weir Schultz and Geoffrey Jellicoe….

Deene Park
Corby, Northamptonshire
Robert Brudenell was buried at Deene Park in 1514, and his son continued to enlarge the estate; Queen Elizabeth was entertained here in 1566. In 1606, the house was inherited by Thomas Brudenell who was created Earl of Cardigan in 1660….

Kelmarsh
Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire
William Hanbury commissioned James Gibbs to design a new house in 1728; it was completed by 1737. The gardens were redesigned in the twentieth century by Geoffrey Jellicoe for Nancy Lancaster….