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Stately home
Extracted from the Wikipedia article English country house.
Stately homes of England
The term stately home is subject to debate, and is generally avoided by historians and academics. As a description of a country house, it was first used in a poem by Felicia Hemans, "The Homes of England", published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1827, and later popularised in a song by Noël Coward.