• 2016
Phil Spencer's Stately Homes

Summary Property expert Phil Spencer visits some of Britain's best stately homes to learn about their rich history and enormous upkeep cost. View more details

  • 2016

Phil Spencer's Stately Homes

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Phil Spencer Liz Smith

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7.8

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Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Aug 8, 2016

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Mayfly Television

Summary Property expert Phil Spencer visits some of Britain's best stately homes to learn about their rich history and enormous upkeep cost. View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Aug 8, 2016

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Mayfly Television

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Aug 08, 2016
Burghley House
Phil visits a masterpiece of Elizabethan architecture set in 1400 acres of Lincolnshire parkland, from its Heaven room and Hell staircase, to its extravagant antiques and gardens.
Episode 2 • Aug 15, 2016
Castle Howard
Phil visits one of the most celebrated stately homes in Britain: Castle Howard in Yorkshire. It's the setting for TV's Brideshead Revisited and Phil is given an extensive guided tour.
Episode 3 • Aug 22, 2016
Woburn Abbey
Phil visits Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, ancestral home of the Dukes of Bedford for nearly 400 years, with its magical shell grotto, sumptuous state rooms and 3000-acre deer park.
Episode 4 • Aug 29, 2016
Holkham Hall
Phil Spencer visits Holkham Hall which is an 18 th century mansion in North Norfolk, England. This massive home is in the Palladian style which Thomas Coke, the 1st Earl of Leicester and owner, had much admired while on his grand tour of Europe as a teen, for 6 years. The mansion took 30 years to complete and 3 million bricks, it has a massive marble hall with a 50ft ceiling, underfloor heating and 18 columns made of alabaster from Derebyshire. The stone for the outside came 750 miles by ship from the Bath area in Somerset. Today the owner is the 8th Earl of Leicester and the house is open to the public, there are 350 staff members. There are beautiful Brussels tapestries in the sitting room and a vaulted copper ceiling in the saloon.
Episode 5 • Sep 05, 2016
Hopetoun House
Phil Spencer travels north and into Scotland to visit this very large stately home inhabited by a family with 4 children. It is one house back to back with another as the sons of the original man who built it, increased its size. The estate is 12 miles north of Edinburgh. The leased farmers' cottages of old days are now Holiday Flats for tourists.
Episode 6 • Sep 12, 2016
Goodwood House
Phil visits a stately home with a racy reputation: Glorious Goodwood, on the stunning South Downs. Famous for giving guests a good time, Goodwood sits in a vast estate where every acre is dedicated to entertainment. It's where the wealthy flock for a flutter on the horses. It's also famous for cricket, parties and motor racing. Phil's host is the current owner Lord March, who's lived at Goodwood since 1994. He opens the doors to the glamorous state rooms, and takes Phil for a spin round the famous race track in one of his most prized vintage cars. With access to the family archive, Phil reveals the origins of the estate, which stretches back to a royal scandal and the love child of Charles II.
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