Open to visitorsa National Trust place — check opening times and admission before you go
John Bourchier III built this red-brick Baroque mansion in 1716, on the site of an earlier manor; the architect was never recorded, though a local builder, William Thornton, oversaw the work. The National Trust, which took the estate on in 1958, now hangs more than a hundred 18th-century portraits here on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, alongside a working walled garden of fruit and vegetables. It sits beside the River Ouse, a few miles upstream from York and its Minster. Ticketed, with National Trust members free, and closed some winter days.
