Houses & gardens in County DurhamCounty Durham, England

Vast medieval castle with towers and deer park.

A medieval deer park of the Bishops of Durham, with an 18th-century Deer House folly.

An early-19th-century estate with an obelisk and two temples across 300 hectares.

Series of intimate walled and cottage gardens around a medieval hall on the edge of Durham city.

Ten hectares of woodland, glasshouses and themed plantings on the wooded southern edge of the city.

Walled Teesdale garden of winding paths, borders and a stream around a 16th-century churchyard, with a plant nursery.

Restored 18th-century landscape park at Sedgefield of lakes, temples and serpentine walks.

Restored hilltop park above Durham station with the classic postcard view over the cathedral and castle.

A 1720s Palladian house that inspired Walter Scott's poem 'Rokeby'.

A Victorian park of 1893, given to Stockton by a shipbuilder.