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Anne Hathaway's Cottage was the home of Shakespeare's wife before they married in 1582. Besides its romantic associations, as the place where the teenage Shakespeare courted his future wife, the Hathaway home has also come to be regarded as the quintessential English country cottage. The thatched farmhouse continued…
Distance: 14.8 miles away

One of the last great homes to be built in the flamboyant Jacobean style, the mansion which was built between 1618 and 1635 for Sir Thomas Holte. Aston Hall has been displayed as a country house museum since the 1940s. It houses the major part of Birmingham…
Distance: 11.7 miles away

Picturesque medieval moated manor house and garden.This atmospheric house dates from the 15th century and has changed little since 1634. The interiors reflect the house&8217;s heyday in the Elizabethan era, when it was a haven for persecuted Catholics &8211; there are no fewer than three priest‐holes. There is…
Distance: 11.1 miles away

Himley Hall was a moated manor house, which stood next to the medieval church and village. Himley Hall, situated between Kingswinford and Wombourne, started life in the 18th century when a medieval manor house on the site belonging to the Earl of Dudley was demolished to make…
Distance: 14.7 miles away

Mary Ardens House in the village of Wilmcote, a couple of miles north of Stratford, was the childhood home of Shakespeare's mother. Situated three and a half miles outside Stratford, it is also home to the Shakespeare countryside museum, two historic farms, displays of farm implements, daily…
Distance: 12.4 miles away

A fascinating 20th‐century evocation of domestic Tudor architecture, Packwood is originally a 16th‐century manor house. Cromwell's general, Henry Ireton, slept here the night before the Battle of Edghill in 1642 and family tradition relates how Charles II was given food and drink at the house in 1651 following…
Distance: 9.5 miles away

Robert Hooke designed Ragley in 1680. The Eighth Marquess of Hertford saw Graham Rust at work on a mural in Virginia and decided that he was the ideal artist to decorate the bare walls and ceilings of Ragley's South Staircase Hall. The Temptation was designed and…
Distance: 10.7 miles away

Soho House Museum was the home of Matthew Boulton, one of Birmingham's most famous sons. Boulton is famous for his associations with James Watt and the Lunar Society and left his mark on industrial development in Birmingham. The house has been painstakingly restored to its Eighteenth…
Distance: 10.8 miles away

A romantic garden set in an old walled kitchen garden. The area is only 1 acre but seems much larger‐ hedges divide it into different compartments and create diverse habitats in which to grow the vast selection of rare and unusual plants that thrive here. Unusual…
Distance: 9.9 miles away