0 a large traditional house in the countryside, especially one that has belonged to the same family for many years:
The entire series ought to find a place on every country house bookshelf.
And part of the fun of having a country house was to visit everyone else's.
Until recently, however, neither architectural nor social historians have paid all that much attention to the origins of the country house.
Building and visiting houses kept many families busy, but what exactly did one do in a country house?
The polite tourist : four centuries of country house visiting.
One cannot help feeling that the country house is simply a place to be milked for the book they are writing.
Certainly for most of the twentieth century the country house was regarded as a liability.
The curse of the country house is their cost.
